Countries
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
115
0
46
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National Language
Turkey
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Turkish Language Association
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Azerbaijani Language
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2926
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
824
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2123
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Merhaba
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
teşekkür ederim
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
Nasılsın?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
İyi Geceler
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
İyi Akşamlar
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
Tünaydın
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
günaydın
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
lütfen
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
üzgünüm
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
Hoşçakal
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
Seni seviyorum
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
Afedersiniz
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Azerbaijani Turkish
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
26,000,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Crimean Turkish
Wu
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
480,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Gagauz
Yue
Where They Speak
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
140,000.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
910
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
75.00 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.95 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
60.00 million873.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Türkçe
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Anatolian, Türkisch
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
turc
chinois
German Name
Türkisch
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Turkish
Han
Origin
c. 1350
1250 BC
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 Chinese
Language Position
191
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Turkish Sign Language
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
tr
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tur
zho
ISO 639 2/B
tur
chi
ISO 639 3
tur
zho
ISO 639 6
tur
zho
Glottocode
nucl1301
sini1245
Linguasphere
44-AAB-a
79-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating