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
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
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
Pan South African Language Board
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 meaning of word "Zulu" means "Sky"and Zulu was the name of the ancestor who founded the Zulu royal line in about 1670.
- Zulu language has many loanwords borrowed from Afrikaans and English Languages.
Similar To
Azerbaijani Language
Xhosa Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2957
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
87
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2150
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
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Merhaba
Sawubona
Thank You
teşekkür ederim
Ngiyabonga
How Are You?
Nasılsın?
unjani
Good Night
İyi Geceler
okuhle ebusuku
Good Evening
İyi Akşamlar
okuhle kusihlwa
Good Afternoon
Tünaydın
okuhle ntambama
Good Morning
günaydın
okuhle ekuseni
Please
lütfen
Ngiyacela
Sorry
üzgünüm
Ngiyaxolisa
Bye
Hoşçakal
bye
I Love You
Seni seviyorum
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Excuse Me
Afedersiniz
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Azerbaijani Turkish
Qwabe
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
Gabon, South Africa
How Many People Speak
26,000,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Crimean Turkish
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Georgia, South Africa
How Many People Speak
480,000.0028,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Gagauz
Ndebele
Where They Speak
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
140,000.0028,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
94
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
75.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.95 %0.16 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
60.00 million12.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Türkçe
isiZulu
Alternative Names
Anatolian, Türkisch
Isizulu, Zunda
French Name
turc
zoulou
German Name
Türkisch
Zulu-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
[zuːlu]
Ethnicity
Turkish
Zulu people
Origin
c. 1350
19
Language Family
Turkic Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Turkic
Benue-Congo
Branch
Southwestern(Oghuz)
Beatu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
urban Zulu
Standard Forms
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
Deep Zulu
Language Position
1987
1
120
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Signed Forms
Turkish Sign Language
Zulu Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
tr
zu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tur
zul
ISO 639 2/B
tur
zul
ISO 639 3
tur
zul
ISO 639 6
tur
zul
Glottocode
nucl1301
zulu1248
Linguasphere
44-AAB-a
99-AUT-fg
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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