Countries
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
European Union, Latvia
Total No. Of Countries
112
0
46
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National Language
Turkey
Latvia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Turkish Language Association
Latvian State Language Center
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.
- The first written form of Latvian dates from 16th century was found in religious texts.
- The old latvian language was based on the a Gothic script.
Similar To
Azerbaijani Language
Lithuanian Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2933
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
89
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2124
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Merhaba
Sveiki
Thank You
teşekkür ederim
Paldies
How Are You?
Nasılsın?
Kā jums klājas?
Good Night
İyi Geceler
Ar labunakti
Good Evening
İyi Akşamlar
Labvakar
Good Afternoon
Tünaydın
Labdien
Good Morning
günaydın
Labrīt
Please
lütfen
lūdzu
Sorry
üzgünüm
Piedodiet!
Bye
Hoşçakal
Uz redzēšanos
I Love You
Seni seviyorum
Es tevi mīlu
Excuse Me
Afedersiniz
Piedodiet!
Dialect 1
Azerbaijani Turkish
Livonian
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
Latvia
How Many People Speak
26,000,000.001,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Crimean Turkish
Middle Latvian
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Latvia
How Many People Speak
480,000.002,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Gagauz
High Latvian
Where They Speak
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
France, Latvia
How Many People Speak
140,000.001,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
93
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
75.00 million1.75 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.95 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
60.00 million1.75 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Türkçe
latviešu valoda
Alternative Names
Anatolian, Türkisch
Lettish
French Name
turc
letton
German Name
Türkisch
Lettisch
Pronunciation
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
[ˈlætviən]
Ethnicity
Turkish
Latvians or Letts
Origin
c. 1350
1530
Language Family
Turkic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Turkic
Baltic
Branch
Southwestern(Oghuz)
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
No early forms
Standard Forms
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
Latvian
Language Position
199
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Turkish Sign Language
Latvian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
tr
lv
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tur
lav
ISO 639 2/B
tur
lav
ISO 639 3
tur
lav
ISO 639 6
tur
lav
Glottocode
nucl1301
latv1249
Linguasphere
44-AAB-a
54-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Synthetic