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Countries

Countries

Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan

Total No. Of Countries

113
0 46
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National Language

Turkey
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka

Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe
Asia

Minority Language

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates

Regulated By

Turkish Language Association
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan

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 Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
  • Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.

Similar To

Azerbaijani Language
Pashto and Balochi Languages

Derived From

-
Arabic Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2932
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

86
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2123
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Arabic

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

66
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Merhaba
سلام

Thank You

teşekkür ederim
متشکرم

How Are You?

Nasılsın?
چطور هستید?

Good Night

İyi Geceler
شب بخیر

Good Evening

İyi Akşamlar
عصر بخیر

Good Afternoon

Tünaydın
بعد از ظهر بخیر

Good Morning

günaydın
صبح به خیر

Please

lütfen
لطفا

Sorry

üzgünüm
متاسف

Bye

Hoşçakal
خدا حافظ

I Love You

Seni seviyorum
من شما را دوست دارم

Excuse Me

Afedersiniz
ببخشيد!

Dialects

Dialect 1

Azerbaijani Turkish
Western Persian

Where They Speak

Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
Iran, Iraq

How Many People Speak

26,000,000.0047,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Crimean Turkish
Dari Persian

Where They Speak

Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Afganistan

How Many People Speak

480,000.0012,500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Gagauz
Tajik Persian

Where They Speak

Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan

How Many People Speak

140,000.007,900,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

912
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

75.00 million65.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.95 %0.99 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

60.00 million65.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

15.00 million110.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Türkçe
فارسی

Alternative Names

Anatolian, Türkisch
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian

French Name

turc
persan

German Name

Türkisch
Persisch

Pronunciation

[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
[fɒːɾˈsiː]

Ethnicity

Turkish
Persian people

History

Origin

c. 1350
1500 BC

Language Family

Turkic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Turkic
Indo-Iranian

Branch

Southwestern(Oghuz)
Iranian

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
Old Persian and Middle Persian

Standard Forms

Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
Persian

Language Position

1923
1 120
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Signed Forms

Turkish Sign Language
Persian Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

tr
fa

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

tur
fas

ISO 639 2/B

tur
per

ISO 639 3

tur
pes

ISO 639 6

tur
pers

Glottocode

nucl1301
fars1254

Linguasphere

44-AAB-a
58-AAC-c

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
Synthetic

Turkish and Persian Alphabets

Turkish and Persian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Turkish and Persian. In Turkish Alphabets there are 29 letters while in Persian Alphabets there are 32 letters. To learn Turkish and Persian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Turkish and Persian languages. The Turkish phonology consist Turkish vowels and Turkish consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Turkish greetings vs Persian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Turkish and Persian are Most Spoken Languages.

All Turkish and Persian Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Turkish and Persian dialects. Various dialects of Turkish and Persian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Turkish are spoken in different Turkish Speaking Countries whereas Persian Dialects are spoken in different Persian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Turkish vs Persian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Turkish dialects include: Azerbaijani Turkish, Crimean Turkish. Persian dialects include: Western Persian , Dari Persian. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Turkish and Persian Speaking population

Turkish and Persian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Turkish and Persian languages can be compared. The total count of Turkish and Persian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Turkish language is 0.95 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Persian language is 0.99 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Turkish and Persian on Turkish vs Persian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Turkish and Persian Language Codes

Turkish and Persian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Turkish and Persian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.