Countries
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
National Language
Turkey
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Africa, Asia
  
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Turkish Language Association
  
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
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.
  
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
  
Similar To
Azerbaijani Language
  
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Merhaba
  
مرحبا
  
Thank You
teşekkür ederim
  
شكرا
  
How Are You?
Nasılsın?
  
كيف حالك؟
  
Good Night
İyi Geceler
  
تصبح على خير
  
Good Evening
İyi Akşamlar
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Afternoon
Tünaydın
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Morning
günaydın
  
صباح الخير
  
Please
lütfen
  
من فضلك
  
Sorry
üzgünüm
  
آسف
  
Bye
Hoşçakal
  
وداعا
  
I Love You
Seni seviyorum
  
أحبك
  
Excuse Me
Afedersiniz
  
اعذرني
  
Dialect 1
Azerbaijani Turkish
  
Maghrebi
  
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
How Many People Speak
26,000,000.00
  
9
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Crimean Turkish
  
Sudanese
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Sudan
  
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00
  
6
Dialect 3
Gagauz
  
Levantine
  
Where They Speak
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
  
Cyprus, Levant
  
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00
  
3
How Many People Speak?
75.00 million
  
23
452.00 million
  
4
Native Speakers
60.00 million
  
20
206.00 million
  
6
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million
  
18
246.00 million
  
2
Native Name
Türkçe
  
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Alternative Names
Anatolian, Türkisch
  
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
French Name
turc
  
arabe
  
German Name
Türkisch
  
Arabisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
  
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Ethnicity
Turkish
  
Arabs
  
Origin
c. 1350
  
512 CE
  
Language Family
Turkic Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Subgroup
Turkic
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
North Arabic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
  
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Signed Forms
Turkish Sign Language
  
Signed Arabic
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
tr
  
ar
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
tur
  
ara
  
ISO 639 2/B
tur
  
ara
  
ISO 639 3
tur
  
ara
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nucl1301
  
arab1395
  
Linguasphere
44-AAB-a
  
12-AAC
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic