Editing Turkish language (section)

=== Word origins ===
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| caption = Origins of the Turkish vocabulary<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ali |first1=Çiçek |title=TÜRKÇENİN SON YÜZYILDAKİ DEĞİŞİM SÜRECİ ÜZERİNE BİR İNCELEME |journal=Erzincan Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi |date=2011 |page=165 |url=https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/67837}}</ref>
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| label1 = [[Turkic languages]]
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| value2 = 5.81
| label2 = [[Arabic]]
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| value3 = 4.73
| label3 = [[French language|French]]
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| value4 = 1.22
| label4 = [[Persian language|Persian]]
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| value5 = 0.57
| label5 = [[Italian language|Italian]]
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| value6 = 0.43
| label6 = [[English language|English]]
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| value7 = 0.36
| label7 = [[Greek language|Greek]]
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| value8 = 0.13
| label8 = [[Latin]]
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| other  = Other languages (less than 1 % each)
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Around 86% of the Turkish vocabulary is of [[Turkic languages|Turkic]] origin. The majority of the core vocabulary and the most commonly used words in Turkish, including those first acquired by children as they learn to speak, derive from Turkic. Nevertheless, Turkish vocabulary contains a significant number of loanwords from other languages, in which around 14% of Turkish words are of foreign origin. According to the [[Turkish Language Association]], 6,463 of these foreign words come from [[Arabic]], 4,974 from [[French language|French]], 1,374 from [[Persian language|Persian]], 632 from [[Italian language|Italian]], 538 from [[English language|English]], 399 from [[Greek language|Greek]], and 147 from [[Latin]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Türk Dil Kurumu |title=Türkçe Sözlük |date=2005 |publisher=Türk Dil Kurumu |location=Ankara |edition=10 |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929114554/http://www.tdk.gov.tr/TR/Genel/BelgeGoster.aspx?F6E10F8892433CFFAAF6AA849816B2EF1A46C5FBFA979D0C}}</ref>

In Turkish, there are many pairs of [[synonyms]] where one word is of foreign origin and the other of Turkic origin. These pairs are the result of the enrichment of the Turkish vocabulary with loanwords from Arabic, Persian and French, and of the [[Turkish language reform|Turkish language reform]] initiated in the early 20th century that aimed to restore foreign-origin words with Turkic equivalents.<ref name=lewis2002>{{cite book|last=Lewis|first=Geoffrey|title=The Turkish Language Reform: A Catastrophic Success|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2002|isbn=0-19-925669-1}}</ref>