Countries
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
Total No. Of Countries
113
0
46
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National Language
Turkey
Abkhazia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Turkish Language Association
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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.
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
Similar To
Azerbaijani Language
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Derived From
-
Caucasian languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2962
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
82
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2160
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks27 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Merhaba
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
Thank You
teşekkür ederim
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
How Are You?
Nasılsın?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
Good Night
İyi Geceler
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
Good Evening
İyi Akşamlar
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good Afternoon
Tünaydın
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good Morning
günaydın
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
Please
lütfen
амритана
Sorry
üzgünüm
Амарахь
Bye
Hoşçakal
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
I Love You
Seni seviyorum
-
Excuse Me
Afedersiniz
Извините (Izvinite)
Dialect 1
Azerbaijani Turkish
Bzyb
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
Abkhazia
How Many People Speak
26,000,000.00106,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Crimean Turkish
Abzhywa
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Caucasus
How Many People Speak
480,000.00106,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Gagauz
Sadz
Where They Speak
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
Turkey
How Many People Speak
140,000.00106,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
93
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
75.00 million0.13 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.95 %0.01 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
60.00 million0.13 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million-
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Türkçe
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
Alternative Names
Anatolian, Türkisch
Abxazo, Abkhazian
French Name
turc
abkhaze
German Name
Türkisch
Abchasisch
Pronunciation
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
[abxaz]
Ethnicity
Turkish
Abkhaz people
Origin
c. 1350
c. 1650
Language Family
Turkic Family
Northwest Caucasian
Subgroup
Turkic
-
Branch
Southwestern(Oghuz)
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
No early forms
Standard Forms
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
Abkhaz
Language Position
1928
1
120
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Signed Forms
Turkish Sign Language
Abkhaz Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
tr
ab
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tur
abk
ISO 639 2/B
tur
abk
ISO 639 3
tur
abk
ISO 639 6
tur
abks
Glottocode
nucl1301
abkh1244
Linguasphere
44-AAB-a
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Agglutinative