Countries
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
  
Japan
  
National Language
Turkey
  
Japan
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia, Pacific
  
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
  
Palau
  
Regulated By
Turkish Language Association
  
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
  
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.
  
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
  
Similar To
Azerbaijani Language
  
Korean Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Turkish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Japanese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Kana
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Merhaba
  
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
  
Thank You
teşekkür ederim
  
ありがとう (Arigatō)
  
How Are You?
Nasılsın?
  
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
  
Good Night
İyi Geceler
  
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
  
Good Evening
İyi Akşamlar
  
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
  
Good Afternoon
Tünaydın
  
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
  
Good Morning
günaydın
  
おはよう (Ohayō)
  
Please
lütfen
  
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
  
Sorry
üzgünüm
  
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
  
Bye
Hoşçakal
  
さようなら (Sayōnara)
  
I Love You
Seni seviyorum
  
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
  
Excuse Me
Afedersiniz
  
すみません (Sumimasen)
  
Dialect 1
Azerbaijani Turkish
  
Sanuki
  
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
Kagawa
  
How Many People Speak
26,000,000.00
  
9
1,000,000.00
  
28
Dialect 2
Crimean Turkish
  
Hakata
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Fukuoka
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Gagauz
  
Kansai
  
Where They Speak
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
  
kansai
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
75.00 million
  
23
128.00 million
  
14
Native Speakers
60.00 million
  
20
128.00 million
  
9
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million
  
18
Not Available
  
Native Name
Türkçe
  
日本語
  
Alternative Names
Anatolian, Türkisch
  
Not Available
  
French Name
turc
  
japonais
  
German Name
Türkisch
  
Japanisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
  
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
  
Ethnicity
Turkish
  
Japanese (Yamato)
  
Origin
c. 1350
  
1185
  
Language Family
Turkic Family
  
Japonic Family
  
Subgroup
Turkic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
  
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
  
Standard Forms
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
  
Japanese
  
Signed Forms
Turkish Sign Language
  
Signed Japanese
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
tr
  
ja
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
tur
  
jpn
  
ISO 639 2/B
tur
  
jpn
  
ISO 639 3
tur
  
jpn
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nucl1301
  
nucl1643
  
Linguasphere
44-AAB-a
  
45-CAA-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic