Countries
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
  
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
  
National Language
Turkey
  
China, Taiwan
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
  
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
Regulated By
Turkish Language Association
  
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin 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.
  
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
  
Similar To
Azerbaijani Language
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Turkish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
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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 (Nín hǎo)
  
Thank You
teşekkür ederim
  
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
  
How Are You?
Nasılsın?
  
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
  
Good Night
İyi Geceler
  
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
  
Good Evening
İyi Akşamlar
  
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
  
Good Afternoon
Tünaydın
  
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
  
Good Morning
günaydın
  
早安 (Zǎo ān)
  
Please
lütfen
  
请 (Qǐng)
  
Sorry
üzgünüm
  
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
  
Bye
Hoşçakal
  
再见 (Zàijiàn)
  
I Love You
Seni seviyorum
  
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
  
Excuse Me
Afedersiniz
  
劳驾 (Láojià)
  
Dialect 1
Azerbaijani Turkish
  
Mandarin
  
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
  
How Many People Speak
26,000,000.00
  
9
960,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 2
Crimean Turkish
  
Wu
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
China, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 3
Gagauz
  
Yue
  
Where They Speak
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
  
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00
  
2
How Many People Speak?
75.00 million
  
23
1,051.00 million
  
2
Native Speakers
60.00 million
  
20
873.00 million
  
1
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million
  
18
178.00 million
  
3
Native Name
Türkçe
  
中文 (zhōngwén)
  
Alternative Names
Anatolian, Türkisch
  
Not Available
  
French Name
turc
  
chinois
  
German Name
Türkisch
  
Chinesisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Turkish
  
Han
  
Origin
c. 1350
  
1250 BC
  
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 Chinese
  
Signed Forms
Turkish Sign Language
  
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
tr
  
zh
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
tur
  
zho
  
ISO 639 2/B
tur
  
chi
  
ISO 639 3
tur
  
zho
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nucl1301
  
sini1245
  
Linguasphere
44-AAB-a
  
79-AAA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Analytic, Isolating