Countries
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
Iraq, Kurdistan
Total No. Of Countries
112
0
46
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National Language
Turkey
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Middle East
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.
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
Similar To
Azerbaijani Language
Farsi Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2933
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
88
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2129
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks4 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Merhaba
Silaw
Thank You
teşekkür ederim
Sipas
How Are You?
Nasılsın?
Tu çawa yî?
Good Night
İyi Geceler
Şev xweş
Good Evening
İyi Akşamlar
Evare baş
Good Afternoon
Tünaydın
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Good Morning
günaydın
Bayanit bash
Please
lütfen
Bê zehmet
Sorry
üzgünüm
Bibûre
Bye
Hoşçakal
Be xêr çî
I Love You
Seni seviyorum
Ez te hez dikem
Excuse Me
Afedersiniz
Bê zehmet
Dialect 1
Azerbaijani Turkish
Northern Kurdish
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
How Many People Speak
26,000,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Crimean Turkish
Central Kurdish
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
How Many People Speak
480,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Gagauz
Southern Kurdish
Where They Speak
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
Eastern Iraq
How Many People Speak
140,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
93
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
75.00 million28.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.95 %0.31 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
60.00 million21.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
15.00 million20.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Türkçe
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Alternative Names
Anatolian, Türkisch
Kurdî, کوردی
French Name
turc
kurde
German Name
Türkisch
Kurdisch
Pronunciation
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
Ethnicity
Turkish
Kurds
Origin
c. 1350
16th century CE
Language Family
Turkic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Turkic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Southwestern(Oghuz)
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Standard Forms
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
Kurdish
Language Position
1914
1
120
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Signed Forms
Turkish Sign Language
Kurdish Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
tr
ku
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tur
kur
ISO 639 2/B
tur
kur
ISO 639 3
tur
kur
ISO 639 6
tur
kur
Glottocode
nucl1301
kurd1259
Linguasphere
44-AAB-a
58-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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