Countries
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
  
Hong Kong, Macau
  
National Language
Turkey
  
China, Guangdong
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
  
Hawaii
  
Regulated By
Turkish Language Association
  
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
  
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.
  
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
  
Similar To
Azerbaijani Language
  
Chinese Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Turkish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Merhaba
  
您好
  
Thank You
teşekkür ederim
  
谢谢
  
How Are You?
Nasılsın?
  
你好吗?
  
Good Night
İyi Geceler
  
晚安
  
Good Evening
İyi Akşamlar
  
晚上好
  
Good Afternoon
Tünaydın
  
下午好
  
Good Morning
günaydın
  
早上好
  
Please
lütfen
  
请
  
Sorry
üzgünüm
  
遗憾
  
Bye
Hoşçakal
  
再见
  
I Love You
Seni seviyorum
  
我爱你
  
Excuse Me
Afedersiniz
  
原谅我
  
Dialect 1
Azerbaijani Turkish
  
Guangzhou
  
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
outside mainland China
  
How Many People Speak
26,000,000.00
  
9
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Crimean Turkish
  
Xiguan
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Hong Kong
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Gagauz
  
Hong Kong
  
Where They Speak
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
  
Hong Kong
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
75.00 million
  
23
60.00 million
  
27
Native Speakers
60.00 million
  
20
52.00 million
  
21
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million
  
18
Not Available
  
Native Name
Türkçe
  
Kwang Tung Wa
  
Alternative Names
Anatolian, Türkisch
  
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
  
French Name
turc
  
Not Available
  
German Name
Türkisch
  
Not Available
  
Pronunciation
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Turkish
  
Not Available
  
Origin
c. 1350
  
17th century
  
Language Family
Turkic Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
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)
  
Standard Cantonese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Turkish Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
tr
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
tur
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 2/B
tur
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 3
tur
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nucl1301
  
cant1236
  
Linguasphere
44-AAB-a
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Not Available
  
Turkish and Cantonese Speaking population
Turkish and Cantonese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Turkish and Cantonese languages can be compared. The total count of Turkish and Cantonese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Turkish language is 0.95 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Turkish and Cantonese on Turkish vs Cantonese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Turkish and Cantonese Language Codes
Turkish and Cantonese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Turkish and Cantonese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.