Countries
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
  
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
National Language
Turkey
  
Germany
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
  
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
Regulated By
Turkish Language Association
  
Council for German Orthography
  
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.
  
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  
Similar To
Azerbaijani Language
  
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Albanian Languages
  
Alphabets in
Turkish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
German-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
  
Danke
  
How Are You?
Nasılsın?
  
Wie geht es dir?
  
Good Night
İyi Geceler
  
gute Nacht
  
Good Evening
İyi Akşamlar
  
guten Abend
  
Good Afternoon
Tünaydın
  
guten Tag
  
Good Morning
günaydın
  
guten Morgen
  
Please
lütfen
  
bitte
  
Sorry
üzgünüm
  
Verzeihung
  
Bye
Hoşçakal
  
Tschüs
  
I Love You
Seni seviyorum
  
Ich liebe dich
  
Excuse Me
Afedersiniz
  
Entschuldigung
  
Dialect 1
Azerbaijani Turkish
  
Swiss German
  
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
Switzerland
  
How Many People Speak
26,000,000.00
  
9
4,500,000.00
  
18
Dialect 2
Crimean Turkish
  
Swabian German
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Germany
  
Dialect 3
Gagauz
  
Texas German
  
Where They Speak
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
  
Texas
  
How Many People Speak?
75.00 million
  
23
229.00 million
  
8
Native Speakers
60.00 million
  
20
101.00 million
  
10
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million
  
18
128.00 million
  
5
Native Name
Türkçe
  
Deutsch
  
Alternative Names
Anatolian, Türkisch
  
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
French Name
turc
  
allemand
  
German Name
Türkisch
  
Deutsch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
  
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
Ethnicity
Turkish
  
Germans
  
Origin
c. 1350
  
6th Century AD
  
Language Family
Turkic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Turkic
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
  
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Signed Forms
Turkish Sign Language
  
Signed German
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
tr
  
de
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
tur
  
deu
  
ISO 639 2/B
tur
  
ger
  
ISO 639 3
tur
  
deu
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
deus
  
Glottocode
nucl1301
  
high1287, uppe1397
  
Linguasphere
44-AAB-a
  
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic