Countries
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
  
Bulgaria, European Union
  
National Language
Turkey
  
Bulgaria
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Africa, Europe
  
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
  
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Turkish Language Association
  
Institute for the Bulgarian language
  
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.
  
- The only Slavic language which has lost all its grammatical cases is Bulgarian.
- The first Slavic language to be written was Bulgarian in 9th century.
  
Similar To
Azerbaijani Language
  
Macedonian language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Turkish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Bulgarian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Merhaba
  
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
  
Thank You
teşekkür ederim
  
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
  
How Are You?
Nasılsın?
  
Как си? (Kak si?)
  
Good Night
İyi Geceler
  
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
  
Good Evening
İyi Akşamlar
  
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
  
Good Afternoon
Tünaydın
  
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
  
Good Morning
günaydın
  
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
Please
lütfen
  
Моля (Molja)
  
Sorry
üzgünüm
  
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
  
Bye
Hoşçakal
  
Довиждане (Doviždane)
  
I Love You
Seni seviyorum
  
Обичам те (Običam te)
  
Excuse Me
Afedersiniz
  
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
Dialect 1
Azerbaijani Turkish
  
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
  
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
Bulgaria
  
How Many People Speak
26,000,000.00
  
9
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Crimean Turkish
  
Panagyurishte
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Bulgaria
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Gagauz
  
Pirdop
  
Where They Speak
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
  
Bulgaria
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
75.00 million
  
23
7.80 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
60.00 million
  
20
7.80 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million
  
18
Not Available
  
Native Name
Türkçe
  
български (bãlgarski)
  
Alternative Names
Anatolian, Türkisch
  
Balgarski
  
French Name
turc
  
bulgare
  
German Name
Türkisch
  
Bulgarisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Turkish
  
Not Available
  
Origin
c. 1350
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Turkic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Turkic
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Southern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
  
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
  
Standard Forms
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
  
Standard Bulgarian
  
Signed Forms
Turkish Sign Language
  
Bulgarian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
tr
  
bg
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
tur
  
bul
  
ISO 639 2/B
tur
  
bul
  
ISO 639 3
tur
  
bul
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
buls
  
Glottocode
nucl1301
  
bulg1262
  
Linguasphere
44-AAB-a
  
53-AAA-hb
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Not Available