Countries
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
  
Israel
  
National Language
Turkey
  
Israel
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Israel
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Africa, Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
  
Poland
  
Regulated By
Turkish Language Association
  
Academy of the Hebrew Language
  
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.
  
- The original language of Bible is Hebrew.
- The men and women use different verbs in hebrew language.
  
Similar To
Azerbaijani Language
  
Arabic and Aramaic languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Aramaic Language
  
Alphabets in
Turkish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Hebrew-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
How Many Vowels
0
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Hebrew
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Merhaba
  
שלום (Shalom)
  
Thank You
teşekkür ederim
  
תודה (Toda)
  
How Are You?
Nasılsın?
  
מה שלומך? (ma shlomxa)
  
Good Night
İyi Geceler
  
לילה טוב (Laila tov)
  
Good Evening
İyi Akşamlar
  
ערב טוב (Erev tov)
  
Good Afternoon
Tünaydın
  
אחר צהריים טובים (Achar tzahara'im tovim)
  
Good Morning
günaydın
  
בוקר טוב (Boker tov)
  
Please
lütfen
  
בבקשה (bevekshah)
  
Sorry
üzgünüm
  
סליחה! (Slicha)
  
Bye
Hoşçakal
  
להתראות (Lehitraot)
  
I Love You
Seni seviyorum
  
אני אוהבת אותך (Ani ohevet otcha)
  
Excuse Me
Afedersiniz
  
בבקשה!
  
Dialect 1
Azerbaijani Turkish
  
Ashkenazi Hebrew
  
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
Israel
  
How Many People Speak
26,000,000.00
  
9
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Crimean Turkish
  
Samaritan Hebrew
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Israel, Palestine
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Gagauz
  
Yemenite Hebrew
  
Where They Speak
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
  
Israel
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
75.00 million
  
23
9.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
60.00 million
  
20
4.40 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million
  
18
5.60 million
  
27
Native Name
Türkçe
  
עברית / עִבְרִית (ivrit)
  
Alternative Names
Anatolian, Türkisch
  
Israeli, Ivrit
  
French Name
turc
  
hébreu
  
German Name
Türkisch
  
Hebräisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
  
[(ʔ)ivˈʁit] - [(ʔ)ivˈɾit]
  
Ethnicity
Turkish
  
Not Available
  
Origin
c. 1350
  
1000 BC
  
Language Family
Turkic Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Turkic
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Canaanitic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
  
Biblical Hebrew, Mishnaic Hebrew, Medieval Hebrew, Hebrew
  
Standard Forms
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
  
Modern Hebrew
  
Signed Forms
Turkish Sign Language
  
Signed Hebrew
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
tr
  
he
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
tur
  
heb
  
ISO 639 2/B
tur
  
heb
  
ISO 639 3
tur
  
heb
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nucl1301
  
hebr1246
  
Linguasphere
44-AAB-a
  
12-AAB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Subject-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic