1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
South Africa
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Namibia, South Africa
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
1.7 Regulated By
Turkish Language Association
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
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.
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
1.9 Similar To
Azerbaijani Language
Dutch Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Dutch Language
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
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, 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
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Seni seviyorum
Ek het jou lief
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Azerbaijani Turkish
Kaapse Afrikaans
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
Not Available
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
26,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Crimean Turkish
Oranjeriverafrikaans
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Not Available
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
480,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
Namibia
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
140,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
75.00 million19.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
60.00 million7.10 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
15.00 million10.30 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Anatolian, Türkisch
Cape Dutch
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Turkic Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Southwestern(Oghuz)
Western
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
Standard Afrikaans
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Turkish Sign Language
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
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
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