1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Turkey
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Turkish Language Association
1.8 Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- 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
Farsi Language
Azerbaijani Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Tünaydın
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
Seni seviyorum
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Azerbaijani Turkish
4.1.1 Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0026,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Crimean Turkish
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00480,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00140,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
28.00 million75.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
21.00 million60.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Türkçe
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Anatolian, Türkisch
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Turkic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Southwestern(Oghuz)
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Not Available
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Kurdish
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Turkish Sign Language
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology