Countries
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
Bulgaria, European Union
Total No. Of Countries
112
0
46
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National Language
Turkey
Bulgaria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Africa, Europe
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
Regulated By
Turkish Language Association
Institute for the Bulgarian language
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.
- The only Slavic language which has lost all its grammatical cases is Bulgarian.
- The first Slavic language to be written was Bulgarian in 9th century.
Similar To
Azerbaijani Language
Macedonian language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2930
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
86
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2136
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Merhaba
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
Thank You
teşekkür ederim
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
How Are You?
Nasılsın?
Как си? (Kak si?)
Good Night
İyi Geceler
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
Good Evening
İyi Akşamlar
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
Good Afternoon
Tünaydın
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
Good Morning
günaydın
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Please
lütfen
Моля (Molja)
Sorry
üzgünüm
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
Bye
Hoşçakal
Довиждане (Doviždane)
I Love You
Seni seviyorum
Обичам те (Običam te)
Excuse Me
Afedersiniz
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Dialect 1
Azerbaijani Turkish
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
26,000,000.009,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Crimean Turkish
Panagyurishte
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
480,000.009,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Gagauz
Pirdop
Where They Speak
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
140,000.009,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
958
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
75.00 million7.80 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.95 %0.21 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
60.00 million7.80 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million9.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Türkçe
български (bãlgarski)
Alternative Names
Anatolian, Türkisch
Balgarski
French Name
turc
bulgare
German Name
Türkisch
Bulgarisch
Pronunciation
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]
Ethnicity
Turkish
Bulgarian people
Origin
c. 1350
9th Century
Language Family
Turkic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Turkic
Slavic
Branch
Southwestern(Oghuz)
Southern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
Standard Forms
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
Standard Bulgarian
Language Position
1988
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Turkish Sign Language
Bulgarian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
tr
bg
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tur
bul
ISO 639 2/B
tur
bul
ISO 639 3
tur
bul
ISO 639 6
tur
buls
Glottocode
nucl1301
bulg1262
Linguasphere
44-AAB-a
53-AAA-hb
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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