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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

11
Rank: 5 (Overall)
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0 46

1.3 National Language

Turkey

1.4 Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

1.5 Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe

1.6 Minority Language

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania

1.7 Regulated By

Turkish Language Association

1.8 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.

1.9 Similar To

Azerbaijani Language

1.10 Derived From

Not Available

2 Alphabets

2.1 Alphabets in

2.2 Alphabets

29
Rank: 11 (Overall)
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18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

8
Rank: 5 (Overall)
About Hebrew Language
0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

21
Rank: 11 (Overall)
About German Language
9 60

2.4 Scripts

Latin

2.5 Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

2.6 Hard to Learn

2.6.1 Language Levels

6
Rank: 5 (Overall)
About Bengali Language
2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
About Cebuano Language
3 88

3 Greetings

3.1 Hello

Merhaba

3.2 Thank You

teşekkür ederim

3.3 How Are You?

Nasılsın?

3.4 Good Night

İyi Geceler

3.5 Good Evening

İyi Akşamlar

3.6 Good Afternoon

Tünaydın

3.7 Good Morning

günaydın

3.8 Please

lütfen

3.9 Sorry

üzgünüm

3.10 Bye

Hoşçakal

3.11 I Love You

Seni seviyorum

3.12 Excuse Me

Afedersiniz

4 Dialects

4.1 Dialect 1

Azerbaijani Turkish

4.1.1 Where They Speak

Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey

4.1.2 How Many People Speak

26,000,000.00
Rank: 9 (Overall)
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000

4.2 Dialect 2

Crimean Turkish

4.2.1 Where They Speak

Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan

4.2.2 How Many People Speak

480,000.00
Rank: 29 (Overall)
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000

4.3 Dialect 3

Gagauz

4.3.1 Where They Speak

Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine

4.3.2 How Many People Speak

140,000.00
Rank: 26 (Overall)
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

9
Rank: 9 (Overall)
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0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

75.00 million
Rank: 23 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

0.95 %
Rank: 21 (Overall)
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

60.00 million
Rank: 20 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

15.00 million
Rank: 18 (Overall)
About Finnish Language
0.01 400

5.3.2 Native Name

Türkçe

5.3.3 Alternative Names

Anatolian, Türkisch

5.3.4 French Name

turc

5.3.5 German Name

Türkisch

5.4 Pronunciation

[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]

5.5 Ethnicity

Turkish

6 History

6.1 Origin

c. 1350

6.2 Language Family

Turkic Family

6.2.1 Subgroup

Turkic

6.2.2 Branch

Southwestern(Oghuz)

6.3 Language Forms

6.3.1 Early Forms

Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish

6.3.2 Standard Forms

Ottoman Turkish(defunct)

6.3.3 Language Position

19
Rank: 17 (Overall)
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1 120

6.3.4 Signed Forms

Turkish Sign Language

6.4 Scope

Individual

7 Code

7.1 ISO 639 1

tr

7.2 ISO 639 2

7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T

tur

7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B

tur

7.3 ISO 639 3

tur

7.4 ISO 639 6

Not Available

7.5 Glottocode

nucl1301

7.6 Linguasphere

44-AAB-a

7.7 Types of Language

7.7.1 Language Type

Living

7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb

7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic

Know Alphabets in Turkish

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Turkish Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Turkish Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Turkish. Turkish phonology gives Turkish vowels and Turkish consonants. There are 8 vowels and 21 consonants in Turkish language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Turkish is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Turkish language is given in detail in this section.

All Turkish countries

Want to explore all Turkish countries? About Turkish language serves you with all Turkish Speaking Countries. Countries that use Turkish as official language are called as Turkish countries.

  • Countries that use Turkish as their National Language are: Turkey.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Turkish as second language are: Turkish is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Learn Turkish greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Turkish Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Turkish language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Turkish language.Learn Turkish greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: Merhaba
  • Thank you: teşekkür ederim
  • Good Morning: günaydın
  • Good Evening: İyi Akşamlar
  • Good Afternoon: Tünaydın

All Turkish Language Codes

Get to know all Turkish language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Turkish Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.