Countries
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
  
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
  
National Language
Turkey
  
Abkhazia
  
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
  
Not Available
  
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.
  
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
  
Similar To
Azerbaijani Language
  
Adyghe language, Abaza language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Caucasian languages
  
Alphabets in
Turkish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Abkhaz-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Hello
Merhaba
  
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
  
Thank You
teşekkür ederim
  
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
  
How Are You?
Nasılsın?
  
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
  
Good Night
İyi Geceler
  
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
  
Good Evening
İyi Akşamlar
  
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
Good Afternoon
Tünaydın
  
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
Good Morning
günaydın
  
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
  
Please
lütfen
  
Not Available
  
Sorry
üzgünüm
  
Not Available
  
Bye
Hoşçakal
  
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
  
I Love You
Seni seviyorum
  
Not available
  
Excuse Me
Afedersiniz
  
Not available
  
Dialect 1
Azerbaijani Turkish
  
Bzyb
  
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
Abkhazia
  
How Many People Speak
26,000,000.00
  
9
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Crimean Turkish
  
Abzhywa
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Caucasus
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Gagauz
  
Sadz
  
Where They Speak
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
  
Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
75.00 million
  
23
0.13 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
60.00 million
  
20
0.13 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million
  
18
Not Available
  
Native Name
Türkçe
  
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
  
Alternative Names
Anatolian, Türkisch
  
Abxazo, Abkhazian
  
French Name
turc
  
abkhaze
  
German Name
Türkisch
  
Abchasisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Turkish
  
Abkhaz people
  
Origin
c. 1350
  
c. 1650
  
Language Family
Turkic Family
  
Northwest Caucasian
  
Subgroup
Turkic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
  
Abkhaz
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Turkish Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
tr
  
ab
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
tur
  
abk
  
ISO 639 2/B
tur
  
abk
  
ISO 639 3
tur
  
abk
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
abks
  
Glottocode
nucl1301
  
abkh1244
  
Linguasphere
44-AAB-a
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Historical
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Agglutinative