Countries
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
  
Norway
  
National Language
Turkey
  
Norway
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Europe, South America
  
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
  
Nynorsk
  
Regulated By
Turkish Language Association
  
Norwegian Language Council
  
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.
  
- Bergen is one of the Norwegian dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter.
- Since Norwegian language uses pitch accents, it has musical quality and are sometimes employed to distinguish the meanings of homonyms.
  
Similar To
Azerbaijani Language
  
Swedish and Danish Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Turkish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Norwegian-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
  
takk
  
How Are You?
Nasılsın?
  
hvordan har du det?
  
Good Night
İyi Geceler
  
god natt
  
Good Evening
İyi Akşamlar
  
god kveld
  
Good Afternoon
Tünaydın
  
god ettermiddag
  
Good Morning
günaydın
  
god morgen
  
Please
lütfen
  
Vær så snill
  
Sorry
üzgünüm
  
unnskyld
  
Bye
Hoşçakal
  
ha det
  
I Love You
Seni seviyorum
  
Jeg Elsker Deg
  
Excuse Me
Afedersiniz
  
unnskyld meg
  
Dialect 1
Azerbaijani Turkish
  
Jamtlandic
  
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
Jamtland,Harjedalen
  
How Many People Speak
26,000,000.00
  
9
Dialect 2
Crimean Turkish
  
Sognamål
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Sogn
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Gagauz
  
Hallingmål-Valdris
  
Where They Speak
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
  
Hallingdal, Valdres
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
75.00 million
  
23
5.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
60.00 million
  
20
5.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million
  
18
Not Available
  
Native Name
Türkçe
  
Norsk
  
Alternative Names
Anatolian, Türkisch
  
Norsk
  
French Name
turc
  
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
  
German Name
Türkisch
  
Nynorsk
  
Pronunciation
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
  
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
  
Ethnicity
Turkish
  
Norwegians
  
Origin
c. 1350
  
c. 1300 AD
  
Language Family
Turkic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Turkic
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Northern (Scandinavian)
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
  
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
  
Standard Forms
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
  
Nynorsk, Bokmål
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Turkish Sign Language
  
Signed Norwegian
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
tr
  
no
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
tur
  
nor
  
ISO 639 2/B
tur
  
nor
  
ISO 639 3
tur
  
nor
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nucl1301
  
norw1258
  
Linguasphere
44-AAB-a
  
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Fusional