Countries
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
Total No. Of Countries
11
Rank: 5 (Overall)
0
46
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National Language
Turkey
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
Regulated By
Turkish Language Association
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.
Similar To
Azerbaijani Language
Derived From
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
29
Rank: 11 (Overall)
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
8
Rank: 5 (Overall)
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
21
Rank: 11 (Overall)
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
6
Rank: 5 (Overall)
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks
Rank: 17 (Overall)
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Merhaba
Thank You
teşekkür ederim
How Are You?
Nasılsın?
Good Night
İyi Geceler
Good Evening
İyi Akşamlar
Good Afternoon
Tünaydın
Good Morning
günaydın
Please
lütfen
Sorry
üzgünüm
Bye
Hoşçakal
I Love You
Seni seviyorum
Excuse Me
Afedersiniz
Dialect 1
Azerbaijani Turkish
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
How Many People Speak
26,000,000.00
Rank: 25 (Overall)
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Crimean Turkish
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
How Many People Speak
480,000.00
Rank: 71 (Overall)
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Gagauz
Where They Speak
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
How Many People Speak
140,000.00
Rank: 64 (Overall)
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
9
Rank: 9 (Overall)
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
75.00 million
Rank: 23 (Overall)
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.95 %
Rank: 22 (Overall)
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
60.00 million
Rank: 20 (Overall)
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million
Rank: 34 (Overall)
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Türkçe
Alternative Names
Anatolian, Türkisch
French Name
turc
German Name
Türkisch
Pronunciation
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
Ethnicity
Turkish
Origin
c. 1350
Language Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
Turkic
Branch
Southwestern(Oghuz)
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
Standard Forms
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
Language Position
19
Rank: 17 (Overall)
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Turkish Sign Language
Scope
Individual
ISO 639 1
tr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tur
ISO 639 2/B
tur
ISO 639 3
tur
ISO 639 6
tur
Glottocode
nucl1301
Linguasphere
44-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic