Why is 'timeo danaos et dona ferentes' in Latin and not Turkish? For that matter what is it in Turkish?
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Farino
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Turkish wasn't a language 2,000 years ago, when this was written. Virgil was a Roman and his Aeneid was written entirely in Latin, including what was said by the Trojans. Finally! A use for my 5 years of high school Latin!!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_language
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The identity of the language spoken by the ancient Trojans is uncertain, but it was probably a form of Luwian, an extinct Indo-European language of the Anatolian sub-family, closely related to Hittite. For a fuller and more scholarly discussion of the subject, see """Mackie, Talking Trojan: Speech and Community in the Iliad (Lanham MD: Rowmann & Littlefield) 1996"""
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Etruscan is probably derived from a Proto-Turkic tamga system. If this is accepted, (it will be accepted eventualy) then the Indo-Arian language concept will gain a whole new dimension.
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