Countries
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
  
Macedonia
  
National Language
Turkey
  
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
  
Albania, Romania, Serbia
  
Regulated By
Turkish Language Association
  
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
  
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.
  
- There are plenty of loan words in Macedonian language from the Serbian, Bulgarian and Russian languages.
- The only Indo-European language that make use of the narrative mood is Macedonian language.
  
Similar To
Azerbaijani Language
  
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Turkish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Macedonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Merhaba
  
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
Thank You
teşekkür ederim
  
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
  
How Are You?
Nasılsın?
  
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
Good Night
İyi Geceler
  
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
  
Good Evening
İyi Akşamlar
  
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
  
Good Afternoon
Tünaydın
  
Добар ден (Dobar den)
  
Good Morning
günaydın
  
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
Please
lütfen
  
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
  
Sorry
üzgünüm
  
жал (žal)
  
Bye
Hoşçakal
  
Чао (Čao)
  
I Love You
Seni seviyorum
  
Те сакам (Te sakam)
  
Excuse Me
Afedersiniz
  
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
Dialect 1
Azerbaijani Turkish
  
Torlakian
  
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
26,000,000.00
  
9
Dialect 2
Crimean Turkish
  
Debar
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Macedonia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Gagauz
  
Galičnik
  
Where They Speak
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
  
Macedonia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
75.00 million
  
23
2.50 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
60.00 million
  
20
2.50 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million
  
18
Not Available
  
Native Name
Türkçe
  
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
  
Alternative Names
Anatolian, Türkisch
  
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
  
French Name
turc
  
macédonien
  
German Name
Türkisch
  
Makedonisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
  
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
  
Ethnicity
Turkish
  
Macedonians
  
Origin
c. 1350
  
2200 BC
  
Language Family
Turkic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Turkic
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Southern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
  
Macedonian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Turkish Sign Language
  
Macedonian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
tr
  
mk
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
tur
  
mkd
  
ISO 639 2/B
tur
  
mac
  
ISO 639 3
tur
  
mkd
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nucl1301
  
mace1250
  
Linguasphere
44-AAB-a
  
53-AAA-ha
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Analytic