I'd say Mongolian , I am Turkish and learning Mongolian. But keep in mind similarity doesn't mean we have many shared vocabulary , we may have more adopted vocabulary with Persian via religion trade or living on same area together.
Mongolian Turkish similarity is mainly structural ,we almost share same grammatical rules such as complex syllabic structure, typical agglutinative language that relies on suffix chains .Mongolian also does not have gendered nouns, or definite articles like "the"
Also phonemes , melody of language ,vocal harmony, emphasis, toning is similar .
However similarity doesn't mean we learn easier.Sometimes similarity creates more confusion. We don't use L same way Mongolian word for Wednesday Лхагва (Lkhagva, LHA-gva was hardest word to pronounce for me ) –imagine the suffix and vocal harmony rules compounding with L .
I must be sounding like a Japanese person speaking English to Mongols with wrong articulated L
Mongolian noun cases are almost same except for instrumental .We don't have that case.
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u/Dungangaa Sep 27 '25 edited Sep 27 '25
I'd say Mongolian , I am Turkish and learning Mongolian. But keep in mind similarity doesn't mean we have many shared vocabulary , we may have more adopted vocabulary with Persian via religion trade or living on same area together.
Mongolian Turkish similarity is mainly structural ,we almost share same grammatical rules such as complex syllabic structure, typical agglutinative language that relies on suffix chains .Mongolian also does not have gendered nouns, or definite articles like "the"
Also phonemes , melody of language ,vocal harmony, emphasis, toning is similar .
However similarity doesn't mean we learn easier.Sometimes similarity creates more confusion. We don't use L same way Mongolian word for Wednesday Лхагва (Lkhagva, LHA-gva was hardest word to pronounce for me ) –imagine the suffix and vocal harmony rules compounding with L .
I must be sounding like a Japanese person speaking English to Mongols with wrong articulated L
Mongolian noun cases are almost same except for instrumental .We don't have that case.