Countries
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
  
Denmark, European Union, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Nordic Council
  
National Language
Turkey
  
Denmark, Faroe Islands, Germany, Greenland
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Europe, North America, South America
  
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
  
Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Turkish Language Association
  
Dansk Sprognævn (Danish Language Committee)
  
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.
  
- Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are mutually intelligible, that means if u learn Danish is almost like learning three languages in one.
- There are 9 vowels in Danish language, which can be pronounced in 16 different ways.
  
Similar To
Azerbaijani Language
  
Norwegian and Swedish
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Old Norse Language
  
Alphabets in
Turkish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Danish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Merhaba
  
Hallo
  
Thank You
teşekkür ederim
  
Mange tak
  
How Are You?
Nasılsın?
  
Hvordan har du det?
  
Good Night
İyi Geceler
  
God nat
  
Good Evening
İyi Akşamlar
  
God aften
  
Good Afternoon
Tünaydın
  
God eftermiddag
  
Good Morning
günaydın
  
God morgen
  
Please
lütfen
  
Please
  
Sorry
üzgünüm
  
Undskyld!
  
Bye
Hoşçakal
  
Farvel
  
I Love You
Seni seviyorum
  
Jeg elsker dig
  
Excuse Me
Afedersiniz
  
Undskyld mig
  
Dialect 1
Azerbaijani Turkish
  
Scanian
  
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
Sweden
  
How Many People Speak
26,000,000.00
  
9
Dialect 2
Crimean Turkish
  
Jutlandic
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Denmark
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Gagauz
  
Bornholmsk
  
Where They Speak
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
  
Island of Bornholm
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
75.00 million
  
23
5.50 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
60.00 million
  
20
5.50 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million
  
18
Not Available
  
Native Name
Türkçe
  
dansk
  
Alternative Names
Anatolian, Türkisch
  
Dansk, Rigsdansk
  
French Name
turc
  
danois
  
German Name
Türkisch
  
Dänisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
  
[d̥ænˀsɡ̊]
  
Ethnicity
Turkish
  
Danish people or Danes
  
Origin
c. 1350
  
c. 1100 AD
  
Language Family
Turkic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Turkic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
  
Old Danish, Early Modern Danish
  
Standard Forms
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
  
Rigsdansk
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Turkish Sign Language
  
Signed Danish
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
tr
  
da
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
tur
  
dan
  
ISO 639 2/B
tur
  
dan
  
ISO 639 3
tur
  
dan
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nucl1301
  
dani1284
  
Linguasphere
44-AAB-a
  
5 2-AAA-bf & -ca to -cj
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Fusional