Countries
Countries
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
Total No. Of Countries
113
0
46
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National Language
Turkey
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Roman Empire
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Regulated By
Turkish Language Association
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
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.
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
Similar To
Azerbaijani Language
Armenian
Derived From
Not Available
Latin
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2924
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
87
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2117
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
Merhaba
γεια σας (geia sas)
Thank You
teşekkür ederim
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
How Are You?
Nasılsın?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
Good Night
İyi Geceler
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
Good Evening
İyi Akşamlar
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
Good Afternoon
Tünaydın
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
Good Morning
günaydın
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
Please
lütfen
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
Sorry
üzgünüm
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
Bye
Hoşçakal
αντίο (antío)
I Love You
Seni seviyorum
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
Excuse Me
Afedersiniz
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
Dialects
Dialect 1
Azerbaijani Turkish
Cappadocian Greek
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
Greece
How Many People Speak
26,000,000.002,800.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Crimean Turkish
Griko
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Italy
How Many People Speak
480,000.0050,000.00
700
80000000
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Dialect 3
Gagauz
Mariupol
Where They Speak
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
Ukraine
How Many People Speak
140,000.00NA
1400
96000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
925
0
188
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How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
75.00 million13.00 million
0.13
1200
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Speaking Population
0.95 %0.18 %
0.11
89
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Native Speakers
60.00 million13.00 million
0.13
873
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Second Language Speakers
15.00 millionNA
0.01
400
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Native Name
Türkçe
ελληνικά
Alternative Names
Anatolian, Türkisch
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
French Name
turc
grec moderne (après 1453)
German Name
Türkisch
Neugriechisch
Pronunciation
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
[eliniˈka]
Ethnicity
Turkish
Greeks or Hellenes
History
Origin
c. 1350
1500 BC
Language Family
Turkic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Turkic
Hellenic
Branch
Southwestern(Oghuz)
Not Available
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
Standard Forms
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
Modern Greek
Language Position
1974
1
120
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Signed Forms
Turkish Sign Language
Greek Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
tr
el
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tur
ell
ISO 639 2/B
tur
gre
ISO 639 3
tur
ell
ISO 639 6
Not Available
ells
Glottocode
nucl1301
gree1276
Linguasphere
44-AAB-a
56-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic