Countries
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
  
Ukraine
  
National Language
Turkey
  
Ukraine
  
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
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
  
Regulated By
Turkish Language Association
  
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian 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.
  
- Ukrainian Language is second most widespread among the Slavic languages after the Russian Language.
- Ukrainian Language is among the top three most melodious language in the world.
  
Similar To
Azerbaijani Language
  
Russian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Turkish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Merhaba
  
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
teşekkür ederim
  
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
  
How Are You?
Nasılsın?
  
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
  
Good Night
İyi Geceler
  
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
  
Good Evening
İyi Akşamlar
  
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
  
Good Afternoon
Tünaydın
  
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
  
Good Morning
günaydın
  
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
  
Please
lütfen
  
будь ласк
  
Sorry
üzgünüm
  
вибачте (vybachte)
  
Bye
Hoşçakal
  
до побачення (do pobachennya)
  
I Love You
Seni seviyorum
  
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
Afedersiniz
  
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
  
Dialect 1
Azerbaijani Turkish
  
Podillian
  
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
  
How Many People Speak
26,000,000.00
  
9
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Crimean Turkish
  
Volynian
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Rivne, Volyn
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Gagauz
  
Steppe
  
Where They Speak
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
  
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
75.00 million
  
23
39.00 million
  
32
Native Speakers
60.00 million
  
20
39.00 million
  
25
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million
  
18
Not Available
  
Native Name
Türkçe
  
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
  
Alternative Names
Anatolian, Türkisch
  
Not Available
  
French Name
turc
  
ukrainien
  
German Name
Türkisch
  
Ukrainisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
  
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
  
Ethnicity
Turkish
  
Ukrainians
  
Origin
c. 1350
  
1561
  
Language Family
Turkic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Turkic
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
  
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
  
Standard Forms
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
  
Modern Ukrainian
  
Signed Forms
Turkish Sign Language
  
Ukrainian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
tr
  
uk
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
tur
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 2/B
tur
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 3
tur
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nucl1301
  
ukra1253
  
Linguasphere
44-AAB-a
  
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic