Countries
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
  
European Union, Finland
  
National Language
Turkey
  
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Estonia
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
  
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Regulated By
Turkish Language Association
  
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
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.
  
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
  
Similar To
Azerbaijani Language
  
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Turkish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Merhaba
  
Moi
  
Thank You
teşekkür ederim
  
Kiitos
  
How Are You?
Nasılsın?
  
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Good Night
İyi Geceler
  
hyvää yötä
  
Good Evening
İyi Akşamlar
  
Hyvää iltaa
  
Good Afternoon
Tünaydın
  
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Good Morning
günaydın
  
Hyvää huomenta
  
Please
lütfen
  
haluta
  
Sorry
üzgünüm
  
Anteeksi
  
Bye
Hoşçakal
  
Heippa
  
I Love You
Seni seviyorum
  
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Excuse Me
Afedersiniz
  
Anteeksi
  
Dialect 1
Azerbaijani Turkish
  
Colloquial Finnish
  
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
Finland
  
How Many People Speak
26,000,000.00
  
9
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Crimean Turkish
  
Rauma
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Finland, Rauma
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Gagauz
  
Meänkieli
  
Where They Speak
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
  
Finland, Sweden
  
How Many People Speak?
75.00 million
  
23
5.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
60.00 million
  
20
5.40 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million
  
18
0.01 million
  
39
Native Name
Türkçe
  
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Alternative Names
Anatolian, Türkisch
  
Suomi
  
French Name
turc
  
finnois
  
German Name
Türkisch
  
Finnisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
  
[ˈsuomi]
  
Ethnicity
Turkish
  
ethnic Finns
  
Origin
c. 1350
  
1543
  
Language Family
Turkic Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Turkic
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Finnic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
  
Proto-Finnic language
  
Standard Forms
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
  
standard Finnish
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Turkish Sign Language
  
Signed Finnish
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
tr
  
fi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
tur
  
fin
  
ISO 639 2/B
tur
  
fin
  
ISO 639 3
tur
  
fin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nucl1301
  
finn1318
  
Linguasphere
44-AAB-a
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic