Countries
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Total No. Of Countries
112
0
46
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National Language
Turkey
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
Regulated By
Turkish Language Association
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
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.
- Albanian Language has adopted words from Latin, Greek, Turkish, Italian and Slavic languages.
- 74% Albanian people are atheist, they never go to church or mosque.
Similar To
Azerbaijani Language
Romanian
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2936
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
87
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2129
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Merhaba
Përshëndetje
Thank You
teşekkür ederim
Ju faleminderit
How Are You?
Nasılsın?
Si jeni?
Good Night
İyi Geceler
natën e mirë
Good Evening
İyi Akşamlar
mirëmbrëma
Good Afternoon
Tünaydın
mirëdita
Good Morning
günaydın
mirëmengjes
Please
lütfen
Ju lutem
Sorry
üzgünüm
Me fal
Bye
Hoşçakal
mirupafshim
I Love You
Seni seviyorum
unë e dua ju
Excuse Me
Afedersiniz
Më falni
Dialect 1
Azerbaijani Turkish
Gheg Albanian
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
How Many People Speak
26,000,000.003,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Crimean Turkish
Tosk Albanian
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
How Many People Speak
480,000.001,800,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Gagauz
Arbëresh
Where They Speak
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
Italy
How Many People Speak
140,000.00100,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
94
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
75.00 million7.50 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.95 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
60.00 million3.10 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million3.60 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Türkçe
shqip / gjuha shqipe
Alternative Names
Anatolian, Türkisch
Shqip
French Name
turc
albanais
German Name
Türkisch
Albanisch
Pronunciation
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
[ʃcip]
Ethnicity
Turkish
Albanians
Origin
c. 1350
1462 AD
Language Family
Turkic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Turkic
-
Branch
Southwestern(Oghuz)
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
Old Albanian
Standard Forms
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
Standard Albanian
Language Position
1914
1
120
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Signed Forms
Turkish Sign Language
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
tr
sq
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tur
sqi
ISO 639 2/B
tur
alb
ISO 639 3
tur
sqi
ISO 639 6
tur
sqi
Glottocode
nucl1301
alba1267
Linguasphere
44-AAB-a
55-AAA-aaa
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Synthetic