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The '''Sun Language Theory''' ({{langx|tr|Güneş Dil Teorisi}}) was a [[Turkish nationalism|Turkish]] [[Pseudoscientific language comparison|pseudolinguistic]],<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Asher |first1=R. E. |url= |title=The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics |last2=Simpson |first2=J. M. Y. |date=1994 |publisher=Pergamon Press |isbn=978-0-08-035943-4 |volume=6 |pages=3391 |language=en}}</ref> [[pseudoscientific]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hintz |first=Lisel |url= |title=Identity Politics Inside Out: National Identity Contestation and Foreign Policy in Turkey |date=2018 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-065599-0 |pages=63–64 |language=en}}</ref> quasi-hypothesis developed in [[Turkey]] in the 1930s that proposed that all human [[language]]s are descendants of one [[Proto-Turkic language|proto-Turkic]] primal language. The theory's promotion of Turks as a progenitor race led to it finding favour among Turkish [[ultranationalist]]s, who used it to justify their nationalist ideology.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/sun-language-theory |title=Sun Language Theory |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Hermann |first=Rainer |url= |title=Where is Turkey Headed?: Culture Battles in Turkey |date=2014 |publisher=Blue Dome Press |isbn=978-1-935295-72-3 |pages=79 |language=en |quote=the sun language theory, which was abandoned in 1938, claimed that all languages had developed from Turkish. This kind of ultra nationalism had two different cloaks...}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Somay |first=B. |url= |title=The Psychopolitics of the Oriental Father: Between Omnipotence and Emasculation |date=2014 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-1-137-46266-4 |pages=215 |language=en}}</ref>

It claims that primal language had close [[phonemic]] resemblances to Turkish and, because of this, all other languages can be traced back to Turkic roots. According to the theory, this primal language originated among Central Asian worshippers who created it as a means to salute the omnipotence of the sun and its life-giving qualities, hence the name.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Aytürk, İlker |date=November 2004 |title=Turkish Linguists against the West: The Origins of Linguistic Nationalism in Atatürk's Turkey |journal=Middle Eastern Studies |volume=40 |issue=6 |pages=1–25 |doi=10.1080/0026320042000282856 |issn=0026-3206 |oclc=86539631|hdl=11693/49528 |s2cid=144968896 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>