Countries
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
Japan
Total No. Of Countries
111
0
46
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National Language
Turkey
Japan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia, Pacific
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
Palau
Regulated By
Turkish Language Association
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
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.
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
Similar To
Azerbaijani Language
Korean Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2999
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2114
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Kana
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Merhaba
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Thank You
teşekkür ederim
ありがとう (Arigatō)
How Are You?
Nasılsın?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Good Night
İyi Geceler
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Good Evening
İyi Akşamlar
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Good Afternoon
Tünaydın
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Good Morning
günaydın
おはよう (Ohayō)
Please
lütfen
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Sorry
üzgünüm
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Bye
Hoşçakal
さようなら (Sayōnara)
I Love You
Seni seviyorum
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Excuse Me
Afedersiniz
すみません (Sumimasen)
Dialect 1
Azerbaijani Turkish
Sanuki
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
Kagawa
How Many People Speak
26,000,000.001,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Crimean Turkish
Hakata
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Fukuoka
How Many People Speak
480,000.00127,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Gagauz
Kansai
Where They Speak
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
kansai
How Many People Speak
140,000.00127,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
931
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
75.00 million128.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.95 %1.90 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
60.00 million128.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Türkçe
日本語
Alternative Names
Anatolian, Türkisch
Nihongo
French Name
turc
japonais
German Name
Türkisch
Japanisch
Pronunciation
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
Ethnicity
Turkish
Japanese (Yamato)
Origin
c. 1350
1185
Language Family
Turkic Family
Japonic Family
Subgroup
Turkic
-
Branch
Southwestern(Oghuz)
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Standard Forms
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
Japanese
Language Position
198
1
120
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Signed Forms
Turkish Sign Language
Signed Japanese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
tr
ja
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tur
jpn
ISO 639 2/B
tur
jpn
ISO 639 3
tur
jpn
ISO 639 6
tur
jpn
Glottocode
nucl1301
nucl1643
Linguasphere
44-AAB-a
45-CAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Agglutinative, Synthetic