Countries
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
112
0
46
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National Language
Turkey
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
Hawaii
Regulated By
Turkish Language Association
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
Azerbaijani Language
Chinese Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2928
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
88
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2120
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
610
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Merhaba
您好
Thank You
teşekkür ederim
谢谢
How Are You?
Nasılsın?
你好吗？
Good Night
İyi Geceler
晚安
Good Evening
İyi Akşamlar
晚上好
Good Afternoon
Tünaydın
下午好
Good Morning
günaydın
早上好
Please
lütfen
请
Sorry
üzgünüm
遗憾
Bye
Hoşçakal
再见
I Love You
Seni seviyorum
我爱你
Excuse Me
Afedersiniz
原谅我
Dialect 1
Azerbaijani Turkish
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
26,000,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Crimean Turkish
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
480,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Gagauz
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
140,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
93
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
75.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.95 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
60.00 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Türkçe
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Anatolian, Türkisch
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
turc
cantonais
German Name
Türkisch
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Turkish
Han Chinese
Origin
c. 1350
17th century
Language Family
Turkic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Turkic
-
Branch
Southwestern(Oghuz)
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
No early forms
Standard Forms
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
191
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Turkish Sign Language
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
tr
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tur
yue
ISO 639 2/B
tur
yue
ISO 639 3
tur
No data available
ISO 639 6
tur
yue
Glottocode
nucl1301
cant1236
Linguasphere
44-AAB-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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