Turkish words in Urdu

[Hans-Werner Hatting]

On Fri, 8 Sep 2000 22:07:54 +0100 Narayan R. Joshi wrote:
>Mugal kings of Delhi were more Turkish than Mongolian. Is Turkish language
>different from Persian?

Turkish and Persian are very different - they belong to different language
families. While Persian is from the Iranian branch of the Indo-European
language family, and thus is genetically very closely related to Aryan
Indian languages, Turkish is a member of the Altaic language family.
Best regards
H. W. Hatting
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