Is Chinese related to Turkish?

[dalian]

Does anybody know?

[Allan]

Linguists are debated as to whether Turkish and Japanese are related (as well as Japanese and Korean and therefore Turkish with Korean), but I've never heard anyone say that Turkish is in the Sino-Tibetan family (Mandarin, all the Chinese "dialects" plus Burmese and Tibetan).

I think you are thinking of Mongolian (spoken in part of China).

From Wikipedia

Ural-Altaic languages
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Some linguists propose the Ural-Altaic grouping of the Altaic languages (Turkish, Mongolian, Kazakh, Uzbek, Tatar, Manchu, etc., plus perhaps Korean and Japanese) and Uralic languages (Hungarian, Finnish and Estonian mostly) into one language group. This theory is debated and since nowdays even existence of Altaic language family as genetical relatives is highly controversial, the whole Ural-Altaic theory has faced strong criticism among linguistics.

This proposed language family and the speakers are also known as the Turanian. The term derives from the Persia word for places beyond the Oxus, Turān.

Both groups follow the principle of vowel harmony, are agglutinative (stringing suffixes, prefixes or both onto a single root) and lack any way for expressing grammatical gender (see noun case). However this is not necessarely proof for genetic relationship and the vocabulary of both groups does not correspond, except for borrowings.

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The Mongolic languages, are group of languages spoken in Central Asia. Some linguistics propose Mongolian languages together with Turkic (of which Turkish is a member) and Tungusic, as member of Altaic languages, but this is not universally agreed.

The best-known member of this language family, Mongolian is the primary language of most of the residents of Mongolia. The majority of speakers speak the Khalkha dialect. It is also spoken in some of the surrounding areas in provinces of China and the Russian Federation. Mongolian has been written in a variety of alphabets over the years.

The official Mongolian alphabet was created in the 12th century, although it has undergone transformations and occasionally been supplanted by other scripts since then. The Mongolian alphabet had been used in Mongolia until 1943, when it switched to the Cyrillic alphabet, and Cyrillic is still the most common script found in Mongolia today, while the traditional alphabet is currently being slowly reintroduced in the public school system.

Related languages include Kalmyk spoken near the Caspian Sea and Buryat of East Siberia, as well as a number of minor languages in China and the Moghol of Afghanistan. If the Ural-Altaic hypothesis is true, Mongolian is also a distant relative of Hungarian, Finnish, Sami, and Estonian.

See also: Languages of China

[Machjo]

A language spoken in Xinjiang, North West China, is of the Turkik family, and is so similar to Turkish that the Uighurs and Turks can effectively understand each others' spoken language.

[buoyant]

As a native spealer of Turkish I think that they're not the same but there may be some similarities because of the interaction of our ancestors with the Chinese.They were neighbour countries.

[juventa]

Turkish has some grammar similarities with chinese, but Turkish has the same letters as English i mean they are latin.

[wen wu]

Gengis kahn Made it all the way over there, it is likely that he changed things along the way and language would have been one of them. But turkey being where it is would have had a lot of other influences over the years, creating a sort of Hybrid

only guessing though