About Turkish Language | Turkish | Alphabets in Turkish

Countries

Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey

Total No. Of Countries

Rank: 5 (Overall)

0 46

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National Language

Turkey

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe

Minority Language

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania

Regulated By

Turkish Language Association

Interesting Facts

Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.

Similar To

Azerbaijani Language

Derived From

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

Rank: 11 (Overall)

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

Rank: 5 (Overall)

0 32

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How Many Consonants

Rank: 11 (Overall)

9 60

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Scripts

Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Rank: 5 (Overall)

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks

Rank: 17 (Overall)

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

Merhaba

Thank You

teşekkür ederim

How Are You?

Nasılsın?

Good Night

İyi Geceler

Good Evening

İyi Akşamlar

Good Afternoon

Tünaydın

Good Morning

günaydın

Please

lütfen

Sorry

üzgünüm

Bye

Hoşçakal

I Love You

Seni seviyorum

Excuse Me

Afedersiniz

Dialects

Dialect 1

Azerbaijani Turkish

Where They Speak

Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey

How Many People Speak

26,000,000.00

Rank: 25 (Overall)

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Crimean Turkish

Where They Speak

Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan

How Many People Speak

480,000.00

Rank: 71 (Overall)

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Gagauz

Where They Speak

Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine

How Many People Speak

140,000.00

Rank: 64 (Overall)

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

Rank: 9 (Overall)

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

75.00 million

Rank: 23 (Overall)

0 1200

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Speaking Population

0.95 %

Rank: 22 (Overall)

0 89

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Native Speakers

60.00 million

Rank: 20 (Overall)

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

15.00 million

Rank: 34 (Overall)

0.01 400

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Native Name

Türkçe

Alternative Names

Anatolian, Türkisch

French Name

turc

German Name

Türkisch

Pronunciation

[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]

Ethnicity

Turkish

History

Origin

c. 1350

Language Family

Turkic Family

Subgroup

Turkic

Branch

Southwestern(Oghuz)

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish

Standard Forms

Ottoman Turkish(defunct)

Language Position

Rank: 17 (Overall)

1 120

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Signed Forms

Turkish Sign Language

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

tur

ISO 639 2/B

tur

ISO 639 3

tur

ISO 639 6

tur

Glottocode

nucl1301

Linguasphere

44-AAB-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic

Know Alphabets in Turkish

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Turkish Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Turkish Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Turkish. Turkish phonology gives Turkish vowels and Turkish consonants. There are 8 vowels and 21 consonants in Turkish language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Turkish is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Turkish language is given in detail in this section.

All Turkish countries

Want to explore all Turkish countries? About Turkish language serves you with all Turkish Speaking Countries. Countries that use Turkish as official language are called as Turkish countries.

Countries that use Turkish as their National Language are: Turkey.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

Countries that use Turkish as second language are: Turkish is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

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Learn Turkish greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Turkish Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Turkish language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Turkish language.Learn Turkish greetings that can be used in formal situations:

Hello: Merhaba
Thank you: teşekkür ederim
Good Morning: günaydın
Good Evening: İyi Akşamlar
Good Afternoon: Tünaydın

All Turkish Language Codes

Get to know all Turkish language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Turkish Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.