Countries
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Total No. Of Countries
113
0
46
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National Language
Turkey
Somalia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Africa, Middle East
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
Yemen
Regulated By
Turkish Language Association
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
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.
- Somali language is one of the best documented Afro-Asiatic languages.
- One of the most widely spoken of the Cushitic languages is the Somali Language.
Similar To
Azerbaijani Language
Afar and Oromo Language
Derived From
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Arabic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2926
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2121
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks52 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Merhaba
Hello
Thank You
teşekkür ederim
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
How Are You?
Nasılsın?
Sidee tahay ?
Good Night
İyi Geceler
Habeenka Good
Good Evening
İyi Akşamlar
Evening Good
Good Afternoon
Tünaydın
galab wanaagsan
Good Morning
günaydın
Subax wanaagsan
Please
lütfen
Fadlan
Sorry
üzgünüm
sorry
Bye
Hoşçakal
caraysiiyo
I Love You
Seni seviyorum
Waan ku jeclahay
Excuse Me
Afedersiniz
iga raali ahow
Dialect 1
Azerbaijani Turkish
Northern Somali
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
Gabon, Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
26,000,000.0016,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Crimean Turkish
Benaadir
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
How Many People Speak
480,000.0016,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Gagauz
Af-Ashraaf
Where They Speak
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
140,000.0021.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
93
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
75.00 million13.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.95 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
60.00 million8.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million21.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Türkçe
af Soomaali
Alternative Names
Anatolian, Türkisch
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
French Name
turc
somali
German Name
Türkisch
Somali
Pronunciation
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
[afsoomaali]
Ethnicity
Turkish
Somalis
Origin
c. 1350
19th century
Language Family
Turkic Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Turkic
Cushitic
Branch
Southwestern(Oghuz)
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
No early forms
Standard Forms
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
Somali
Language Position
1983
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Turkish Sign Language
Somali Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
tr
so
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tur
som
ISO 639 2/B
tur
som
ISO 639 3
tur
som
ISO 639 6
tur
som
Glottocode
nucl1301
soma1255
Linguasphere
44-AAB-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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