Countries
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
111
0
46
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National Language
Turkey
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Lesotho, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Africa
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
Botswana, Lesotho
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.
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
Similar To
Azerbaijani Language
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Derived From
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Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2953
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
810
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2143
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Merhaba
Molo
Thank You
teşekkür ederim
Ndiyabulela
How Are You?
Nasılsın?
Unjani
Good Night
İyi Geceler
Ulale kakuhle
Good Evening
İyi Akşamlar
Ubusuku obuhle
Good Afternoon
Tünaydın
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Good Morning
günaydın
Molo
Please
lütfen
Ndicela
Sorry
üzgünüm
Ndicela uxolo
Bye
Hoşçakal
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
I Love You
Seni seviyorum
Ndiyakuthanda
Excuse Me
Afedersiniz
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Azerbaijani Turkish
Gcaleka
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
South Africa
How Many People Speak
26,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Crimean Turkish
Thembu
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
South Africa
How Many People Speak
480,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Gagauz
Hlubi
Where They Speak
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
South Africa
How Many People Speak
140,000.0019.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
99
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
75.00 million20.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.95 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
60.00 million8.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
15.00 million11.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Türkçe
isiXhosa
Alternative Names
Anatolian, Türkisch
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
French Name
turc
xhosa
German Name
Türkisch
Xhosa-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
Ethnicity
Turkish
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Origin
c. 1350
16th 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
No early forms
Standard Forms
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
isiXhosa
Language Position
1921
1
120
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Signed Forms
Turkish Sign Language
Signed Xhosa
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
tr
xh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tur
xho
ISO 639 2/B
tur
xho
ISO 639 3
tur
xho
ISO 639 6
tur
xho
Glottocode
nucl1301
xhos1239
Linguasphere
44-AAB-a
99-AUT-fa
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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