Similarities Between Turkish and French

Despite belonging to different language families, French and Turkish have many common words as a result of French loanwords in the Turkish language. These words mainly entered the language in the 1800s. Despite Atatürk’s reforms, most of the French loanwords are still widely used in Turkish today. We showcase some of the words shared in common between Turkish and French, as Şimal, a Turkish speaker from Turkey and Emeline, a French speaker from France, challenge each other with a list of words and sentences