Countries
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
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
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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)
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
Dialect 2
Crimean Turkish
Wu
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
China, United States of America
Where They Speak
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Native Name
Türkçe
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Anatolian, Türkisch
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German Name
Türkisch
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
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Language Family
Turkic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Turkic
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Branch
Southwestern(Oghuz)
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Early Forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
No early forms
Standard Forms
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
Standard Chinese
Signed Forms
Turkish Sign Language
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
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Glottocode
nucl1301
sini1245
Linguasphere
44-AAB-a
79-AAA
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating
Turkish and Chinese Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Turkish and Chinese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Turkish and Chinese language. Turkish word for "Hello" is Merhaba or Chinese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢 (Xièxiè). Find more of such common Turkish Greetings and Chinese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Turkish vs Chinese Difficulty
The Turkish vs Chinese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Turkish Alphabets and Chinese Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Turkish and Chinese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Turkish and Chinese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Turkish is 44 weeks while to learn Chinese time required is 88 weeks.