Editing Sun Language Theory (section)

==Origins==
Influences on the theory included:

* the ideas of the [[France|French]] historian [[Hilaire de Barenton]], expressed in "''L'Origine des Langues, des Religions et des Peuples''" ("The Origin of Languages, Religions and Peoples"), that all languages originated from [[hieroglyph]]s and [[cuneiform]] used by [[Sumer]]ians.<ref name="nytimes">
{{Cite news |title=Turks Teach New Theories |date=1936-02-09 | url= http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70914FC395F167B93CBA91789D85F428385F9 |newspaper=[[New York Times]] |place=Istanbul}}
</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite news|date=2 March 1936|title=Urges Turks to teach culture of their race, Kemal says historians have maligned people, Sun Language revived|page=24|work=[[The News Journal]]}}</ref><ref>[[Geoffrey Lewis (scholar)|Lewis, Geoffrey]] (2002) p.62</ref> Turkish linguists claimed a Turkish origin for the Sumerians, and therefore the origin of language was Turkish.<ref name=":2" />   

* a paper of the [[Austria]]n linguist [[Hermann Feodor Kvergić|Hermann F. Kvergić]] of [[Vienna]] entitled "''La psychologie de quelques éléments des langues Turques''" ("The Psychology of Some Elements of the [[Turkic Languages]]").<ref>
{{cite journal |author=Laut, Jens Peter |year=2002 |title=Noch einmal zu Dr. Kvergić |url=http://www.freidok.uni-freiburg.de/volltexte/1830/pdf/Laut_Noch_einmal_zu_Dr_Kvergic.pdf |format=PDF reprinted online |journal=Turkic Languages |language=German |volume=6 |pages=120–133 |doi= |issn=1431-4983 |oclc=37421320 |id={{URN|nbn|de:bsz:25-freidok-18307}} |access-date=2007-12-05}}
</ref> He also conducted some research on the theory with support of the Turkish Embassy in Vienna.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Aytürk |first=İlker |date=2009 |title=H. F. Kvergić and the Sun-Language Theory |url=https://menadoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/dmg/periodical/titleinfo/1446975 |journal=Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft |volume=159 |issue=1 |pages=27–28 |doi= |issn=0341-0137 |jstor=10.13173/zeitdeutmorggese.159.1.0023|hdl=11693/49479 |hdl-access=}}</ref>
During ten months in late 1935 and early 1936 Turkish linguists from the Turkish Language Society developed the Sun Language Theory which was presented as the source of all languages in the Third Turkish Language Congress.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last=Çolak|first=Yilmaz|date=2004|title=Language Policy and Official Ideology in Early Republican Turkey|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4289953|journal=Middle Eastern Studies|volume=40|issue=6|pages=67–91|doi=10.1080/0026320042000282883|jstor=4289953|s2cid=145469817|issn=0026-3206|url-access=subscription}}</ref>