Countries
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
  
China, Mongolia
  
National Language
Turkey
  
China, Mongolia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Turkish Language Association
  
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
  
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.
  
- Mongolian was first written using Phagspa script in late 13th century.
- There is no connection between Mongolian, Japanese and Korean, but still in terms of grammar and sentence structure they are very similar.
  
Similar To
Azerbaijani Language
  
Turkish Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Turkish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Mongolian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Merhaba
  
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
  
Thank You
teşekkür ederim
  
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
  
How Are You?
Nasılsın?
  
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
  
Good Night
İyi Geceler
  
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
  
Good Evening
İyi Akşamlar
  
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
  
Good Afternoon
Tünaydın
  
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
  
Good Morning
günaydın
  
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
  
Please
lütfen
  
Хэрэв (Kherev)
  
Sorry
üzgünüm
  
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
  
Bye
Hoşçakal
  
Баяртай (Bayartai)
  
I Love You
Seni seviyorum
  
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
  
Excuse Me
Afedersiniz
  
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
  
Dialect 1
Azerbaijani Turkish
  
Khalkha Mongolian
  
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
Mongolia
  
How Many People Speak
26,000,000.00
  
9
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Crimean Turkish
  
Ordos Mongolian
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Mongolia
  
Dialect 3
Gagauz
  
Khorchin Mongolian
  
Where They Speak
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
  
Mongolia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
75.00 million
  
23
5.70 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
60.00 million
  
20
5.70 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million
  
18
Not Available
  
Native Name
Türkçe
  
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
  
Alternative Names
Anatolian, Türkisch
  
Not Available
  
French Name
turc
  
mongol
  
German Name
Türkisch
  
Mongolisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
  
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
  
Ethnicity
Turkish
  
Not Available
  
Origin
c. 1350
  
1224-1225
  
Language Family
Turkic Family
  
Mongolic family
  
Subgroup
Turkic
  
Mongolian
  
Branch
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
  
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
  
Standard Forms
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
  
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Turkish Sign Language
  
Mongolian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
tr
  
mn
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
tur
  
mon
  
ISO 639 2/B
tur
  
mon
  
ISO 639 3
tur
  
mon
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nucl1301
  
mong1331
  
Linguasphere
44-AAB-a
  
part of 44-BAA-b
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Not Available