Countries
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
Total No. Of Countries
111
0
46
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National Language
Turkey
Ethiopia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Africa
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.
- Amharic ranks as second most spoken Semitic language in the world.
- Amharic has its own writing system named “fidel” and it uses Amharic alphabets to write.
Similar To
Azerbaijani Language
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2933
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
87
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2131
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Ethiopic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Merhaba
Selam
Thank You
teşekkür ederim
amesege'nallo'
How Are You?
Nasılsın?
Dehina newot?
Good Night
İyi Geceler
Dehna dur
Good Evening
İyi Akşamlar
melkam meshe't
Good Afternoon
Tünaydın
i'ndemin walu
Good Morning
günaydın
i'ndemin adäru
Please
lütfen
i'bakwon
Sorry
üzgünüm
aznallehu
Bye
Hoşçakal
tschao
I Love You
Seni seviyorum
afekirishalehu
Excuse Me
Afedersiniz
yiqirta
Dialect 1
Azerbaijani Turkish
Gondar
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
Gondar
How Many People Speak
26,000,000.0022,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Crimean Turkish
Gojjami
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
480,000.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Gagauz
Showa
Where They Speak
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
140,000.0022,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
95
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
75.00 million18.70 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.95 %0.37 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
60.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million10.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Türkçe
አማርኛ
Alternative Names
Anatolian, Türkisch
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
French Name
turc
amharique
German Name
Türkisch
Amharisch
Pronunciation
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
[amarɨɲɲa]
Ethnicity
Turkish
Amharas
Origin
c. 1350
13th century
Language Family
Turkic Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Turkic
Semitic
Branch
Southwestern(Oghuz)
Ethiopic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
Ge'ez
Standard Forms
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
Amharic
Language Position
1955
1
120
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Signed Forms
Turkish Sign Language
Signed Amharic
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
tr
am
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tur
amh
ISO 639 2/B
tur
amh
ISO 639 3
tur
amh
ISO 639 6
tur
amh
Glottocode
nucl1301
amha1245
Linguasphere
44-AAB-a
12-ACB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional