In this video, we compare some of the common words between Turkish (Türkçe) and the Lebanese dialect of Arabic, with Merve and Sefa, representing Turkish, and Joe and Anthony, as the representatives from Lebanon.

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The Turkish language, which is also referred to as Istanbul Turkish, is the official language of Turkey (Türkiye) and is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, with most of its native speakers living in Western Asia, and significant group of speakers in Germany, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Greece, the Caucasus, and other parts of Europe and Central Asia. Ottoman Turkish, which was a variation of the Turkish spoken today, influenced many parts of Europe during the time that the Ottoman Empire expanded. When the modern Turkish republic was established, one of Atatürk's Reforms consisted of changing the Ottoman Turkish alphabet with a Latin alphabet. Today, Turkish is recognized as a minority language in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Macedonia, and Romania.

The Lebanese dialect of Arabic is a variety of North Levantine Arabic which has been influenced by many different languages, including but not limited to Ottoman Turkish, Persian, French, SyriacAramaic, WesternAramaic, Phoenician, and Coptic.

Arabic is a Central Semitic language and has official status in Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Somalia, Syria, Tanzania (Zanzibar), Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. Arabic is also the liturgical language of Islam. However, there are many varieties (dialects) of Arabic, which at times can vary drastically from the Modern Standard Arabic (Fus'ha).