Countries
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
  
Georgia
  
National Language
Turkey
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Turkish Language Association
  
Cabinet of Georgia
  
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.
  
- Georgian language has borrowed many words from Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages.
- Georgian language does not distinguish between 'he/him', 'she/her' and 'it', only masculine form is used.
  
Similar To
Azerbaijani Language
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Anatolian Languages
  
Alphabets in
Turkish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Georgian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic, Georgian script
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Merhaba
  
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
  
Thank You
teşekkür ederim
  
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
  
How Are You?
Nasılsın?
  
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
  
Good Night
İyi Geceler
  
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
  
Good Evening
İyi Akşamlar
  
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
  
Good Afternoon
Tünaydın
  
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
Good Morning
günaydın
  
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
Please
lütfen
  
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
  
Sorry
üzgünüm
  
ბოდიში (bodishi)
  
Bye
Hoşçakal
  
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
  
I Love You
Seni seviyorum
  
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
  
Excuse Me
Afedersiniz
  
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
  
Dialect 1
Azerbaijani Turkish
  
Judaeo-Georgian
  
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
26,000,000.00
  
9
Dialect 2
Crimean Turkish
  
Kartlian
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Kartli
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Gagauz
  
Pshavian
  
Where They Speak
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
  
Pshavi
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
75.00 million
  
23
4.30 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
60.00 million
  
20
4.30 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million
  
18
Not Available
  
Native Name
Türkçe
  
ქართული ენა
  
Alternative Names
Anatolian, Türkisch
  
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
  
French Name
turc
  
géorgien
  
German Name
Türkisch
  
Georgisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
  
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
  
Ethnicity
Turkish
  
Georgians
  
Origin
c. 1350
  
5th Century
  
Language Family
Turkic Family
  
Kartvelian Family
  
Subgroup
Turkic
  
Southern
  
Branch
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
  
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
  
Standard Forms
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
  
Modern Georgian
  
Signed Forms
Turkish Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
tr
  
ka
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
tur
  
kat
  
ISO 639 2/B
tur
  
geo
  
ISO 639 3
tur
  
kat
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nucl1301
  
nucl1302
  
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
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic