Countries
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
111
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Turkey
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Namibia, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Africa
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Regulated By
Turkish Language Association
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
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.
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
Similar To
Azerbaijani Language
Dutch Language
Derived From
-
Dutch Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2932
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
815
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2117
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Merhaba
hallo
Thank You
teşekkür ederim
Dankie
How Are You?
Nasılsın?
Hoe gaan dit
Good Night
İyi Geceler
goeie nag
Good Evening
İyi Akşamlar
Goeienaand
Good Afternoon
Tünaydın
Goeie middag
Good Morning
günaydın
goeie more
Please
lütfen
asseblief
Sorry
üzgünüm
jammer
Bye
Hoşçakal
Totsiens
I Love You
Seni seviyorum
Ek het jou lief
Excuse Me
Afedersiniz
Verskoon my
Dialect 1
Azerbaijani Turkish
Kaapse Afrikaans
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
-
How Many People Speak
26,000,000.007,700,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Crimean Turkish
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
-
How Many People Speak
480,000.007,700,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Gagauz
Baster Afrikaans
Where They Speak
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
Namibia
How Many People Speak
140,000.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
93
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
75.00 million19.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.95 %0.03 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
60.00 million7.10 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million10.30 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Türkçe
Afrikaans
Alternative Names
Anatolian, Türkisch
Cape Dutch
French Name
turc
afrikaans
German Name
Türkisch
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
Ethnicity
Turkish
Afrikaners
Origin
c. 1350
17th Century
Language Family
Turkic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Turkic
Germanic
Branch
Southwestern(Oghuz)
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Standard Forms
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
Standard Afrikaans
Language Position
1923
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Turkish Sign Language
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
tr
af
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tur
afr
ISO 639 2/B
tur
afr
ISO 639 3
tur
afr
ISO 639 6
tur
afrs
Glottocode
nucl1301
afri1274
Linguasphere
44-AAB-a
52-ACB-ba
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Analytic