Countries
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
Zimbabwe
Total No. Of Countries
111
0
46
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National Language
Turkey
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
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.
- Shona language is tonal language.
- The African people in Zimbabwe is made of 10 ethnic groups, each speaking a different languages, shona is spoken by 60 percent of population.
Similar To
Azerbaijani Language
Kalanga and Nambya Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2937
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2146
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Merhaba
Mhoro
Thank You
teşekkür ederim
Waita zvako
How Are You?
Nasılsın?
Wakadini zvako?
Good Night
İyi Geceler
Urare zvakanaka
Good Evening
İyi Akşamlar
Manheru
Good Afternoon
Tünaydın
Masikati
Good Morning
günaydın
Mangwanani
Please
lütfen
Ndinokumbirawo
Sorry
üzgünüm
Ndineurombo
Bye
Hoşçakal
bye
I Love You
Seni seviyorum
Ndinokuda
Excuse Me
Afedersiniz
Pamusoro
Dialect 1
Azerbaijani Turkish
Hwesa
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
26,000,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Crimean Turkish
Karanga
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
southern Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
480,000.001,100,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Gagauz
Zezuru
Where They Speak
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
How Many People Speak
140,000.0016.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
94
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
75.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.95 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
60.00 million8.30 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
15.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Türkçe
chiShona
Alternative Names
Anatolian, Türkisch
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
French Name
turc
shona
German Name
Türkisch
Schona-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
[ʃoːna]
Ethnicity
Turkish
Shona people
Origin
c. 1350
20th century
Language Family
Turkic Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Turkic
Benue-Congo
Branch
Southwestern(Oghuz)
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
Old Shona and Middle Shona
Standard Forms
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
Standard Shona
Language Position
19107
1
120
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Signed Forms
Turkish Sign Language
Signed Shona
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
tr
sn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tur
sna
ISO 639 2/B
tur
sna
ISO 639 3
tur
sna
ISO 639 6
tur
sna
Glottocode
nucl1301
core1255
Linguasphere
44-AAB-a
99-AUT-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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