Countries
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
  
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Turkey
  
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
  
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
  
Regulated By
Turkish Language Association
  
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
  
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 Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
  
Similar To
Azerbaijani Language
  
Pashto and Balochi Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Arabic Language
  
Alphabets in
Turkish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Persian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Merhaba
  
سلام
  
Thank You
teşekkür ederim
  
متشکرم
  
How Are You?
Nasılsın?
  
چطور هستید?
  
Good Night
İyi Geceler
  
شب بخیر
  
Good Evening
İyi Akşamlar
  
عصر بخیر
  
Good Afternoon
Tünaydın
  
بعد از ظهر بخیر
  
Good Morning
günaydın
  
صبح به خیر
  
Please
lütfen
  
لطفا
  
Sorry
üzgünüm
  
متاسف
  
Bye
Hoşçakal
  
خدا حافظ
  
I Love You
Seni seviyorum
  
من شما را دوست دارم
  
Excuse Me
Afedersiniz
  
ببخشيد!
  
Dialect 1
Azerbaijani Turkish
  
Western Persian
  
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
Iran, Iraq
  
How Many People Speak
26,000,000.00
  
9
47,000,000.00
  
7
Dialect 2
Crimean Turkish
  
Dari Persian
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Afganistan
  
How Many People Speak
12,500,000.00
  
7
Dialect 3
Gagauz
  
Tajik Persian
  
Where They Speak
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
  
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
How Many People Speak
7,900,000.00
  
6
How Many People Speak?
75.00 million
  
23
65.00 million
  
26
Native Speakers
60.00 million
  
20
65.00 million
  
17
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million
  
18
Not Available
  
Native Name
Türkçe
  
فارسی
  
Alternative Names
Anatolian, Türkisch
  
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
  
French Name
turc
  
persan
  
German Name
Türkisch
  
Persisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
  
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
  
Ethnicity
Turkish
  
Persian people
  
Origin
c. 1350
  
1500 BC
  
Language Family
Turkic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Turkic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Iranian
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
  
Old Persian and Middle Persian
  
Standard Forms
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
  
Persian
  
Signed Forms
Turkish Sign Language
  
Persian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
tr
  
fa
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
tur
  
fas
  
ISO 639 2/B
tur
  
per
  
ISO 639 3
tur
  
pes
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nucl1301
  
fars1254
  
Linguasphere
44-AAB-a
  
58-AAC-c
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Synthetic