Countries
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
European Union, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Transnistria, Ukraine
Total No. Of Countries
116
0
46
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National Language
Turkey
Moldova, Romania
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Kazakhstan, Russia
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
Hungary, Serbia, Ukraine
Regulated By
Turkish Language Association
Academia de Ştiinţe a Moldovei, Institutul de Lingvisticǎ al Academiei Române (Institute for Li
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.
- Romanian language has distinct type of grammar and phonology compared to other Romance languages.
- The earliest text of Romance language was found in the year 1521.
Similar To
Azerbaijani Language
French, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese and Italian Languages.
Derived From
-
Latin
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2931
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
87
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2120
9
60
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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 weeks24 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Merhaba
alo
Thank You
teşekkür ederim
multumesc
How Are You?
Nasılsın?
ce mai faci?
Good Night
İyi Geceler
noapte Buna
Good Evening
İyi Akşamlar
buna Seara
Good Afternoon
Tünaydın
buna Ziua
Good Morning
günaydın
bună Dimineața
Please
lütfen
Vă Rog
Sorry
üzgünüm
scuze
Bye
Hoşçakal
La revedere
I Love You
Seni seviyorum
Te iubesc
Excuse Me
Afedersiniz
Scuza-Ma
Dialect 1
Azerbaijani Turkish
Aromanian
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Turkey
How Many People Speak
26,000,000.00250,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Crimean Turkish
Megleno-Romanian
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Turkey
How Many People Speak
480,000.005,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Gagauz
Istro-Romanian
Where They Speak
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
Croatia
How Many People Speak
140,000.001,400.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
910
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
75.00 million28.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.95 %0.37 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
60.00 million24.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million4.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Türkçe
Română
Alternative Names
Anatolian, Türkisch
Daco-Rumanian, Moldavian, Rumanian
French Name
turc
roumain; moldave
German Name
Türkisch
Rumänisch
Pronunciation
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
[roˈmɨnə]
Ethnicity
Turkish
Romanians
Origin
c. 1350
1521
Language Family
Turkic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Turkic
-
Branch
Southwestern(Oghuz)
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
Proto-Romanian
Standard Forms
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
Romanian
Language Position
1936
1
120
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Signed Forms
Turkish Sign Language
Romanian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
tr
ro
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tur
ron
ISO 639 2/B
tur
rum
ISO 639 3
tur
ron
ISO 639 6
tur
ron
Glottocode
nucl1301
roma1327
Linguasphere
44-AAB-a
51-AAD-c
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Synthetic