Countries
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
  
National Language
Turkey
  
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, 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
  
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
  
Regulated By
Turkish Language Association
  
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
  
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.
  
- Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
- Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.
  
Similar To
Azerbaijani Language
  
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Turkish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Merhaba
  
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
Thank You
teşekkür ederim
  
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
  
How Are You?
Nasılsın?
  
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
Good Night
İyi Geceler
  
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
  
Good Evening
İyi Akşamlar
  
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
  
Good Afternoon
Tünaydın
  
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
  
Good Morning
günaydın
  
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
  
Please
lütfen
  
Молим (Molim)
  
Sorry
üzgünüm
  
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
  
Bye
Hoşçakal
  
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
  
I Love You
Seni seviyorum
  
Волим те (Volim te)
  
Excuse Me
Afedersiniz
  
Извините (Izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Azerbaijani Turkish
  
Prizren-Timok
  
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
Southeastern Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
26,000,000.00
  
9
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Crimean Turkish
  
Smederevo–Vršac
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Gagauz
  
Torlakian
  
Where They Speak
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
  
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00
  
17
How Many People Speak?
75.00 million
  
23
8.70 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
60.00 million
  
20
8.70 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million
  
18
Not Available
  
Native Name
Türkçe
  
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
  
Alternative Names
Anatolian, Türkisch
  
Montenegrin
  
French Name
turc
  
serbe
  
German Name
Türkisch
  
Serbisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
  
[sr̩̂pskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Turkish
  
Serbs
  
Origin
c. 1350
  
11th Century
  
Language Family
Turkic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Turkic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
  
Standard Serbian
  
Signed Forms
Turkish Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
tr
  
sr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
tur
  
srp
  
ISO 639 2/B
tur
  
srp
  
ISO 639 3
tur
  
srp
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nucl1301
  
serb1264
  
Linguasphere
44-AAB-a
  
53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Not Available