THE SYNTACTIC EQUIVALENCE BETWEEN SUMERIAN AND TURKISH

When it is evaluated at the aspect of morphological classification in the terms of their syntactic structures, Turkish and Sumerian, which are quite close to each other within their agglutinative structures, it is little known about what kind of relationship they are in. Turkish is an agglutinative language. As it is known Turkish located in the Altay branch of the Ural-Altaic language family. As syntactical aspect Turkish differs from isolating languages like Vietnamese, inflected languages like Russian and Sanskrit and monosyllabic languages like Eskimo languages. Turkish uses the affixes for syntactic process. In the same way Turkish use the affixes to derive new words too. Sumerian is not indicated in any language family although his agglutinative structure. If we look at the structure of Sumerian we can say it is an agglutinative language. The affixes can be used to derive new words as well as in the syntactic process. In this context, the structural similarities of Sumerian and Turkish are very interesting. In Turkish and Sumerian phrases, we can clearly see the subject- object- predicate order. These basic syntactical features are common to both languages. However, such similarities are not sufficient to describe the relationship between the two languages with each other. Languages undergo some diachronic changes and in the same time can change also his own structures with different factors. We bring up in our study the syntactical features the two languages and in order to show the equivalence have given varied example of sentence analysis.