Countries
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
  
China
  
National Language
Turkey
  
China
  
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
  
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
  
Regulated By
Turkish Language Association
  
Working Committee of Ethnic Language and Writing of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
  
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.
  
- Uyghur language has large quantity of loan words from Persian, Russian and Chinese.
- Uyghur was originally written with the Orkhon Alphabets.
  
Similar To
Azerbaijani Language
  
Uzbek Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Gokturk Language
  
Alphabets in
Turkish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Uyghur-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Vertical, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Merhaba
  
Ässalamu läykum.
  
Thank You
teşekkür ederim
  
rakhmat
  
How Are You?
Nasılsın?
  
Yakshimasiz? / Qandaq ahwalingiz?
  
Good Night
İyi Geceler
  
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun
  
Good Evening
İyi Akşamlar
  
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
  
Good Afternoon
Tünaydın
  
Not Available
  
Good Morning
günaydın
  
Atiganlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
  
Please
lütfen
  
birdam
  
Sorry
üzgünüm
  
kachurung
  
Bye
Hoşçakal
  
Khayr khosh
  
I Love You
Seni seviyorum
  
sizni yahshi kOrman
  
Excuse Me
Afedersiniz
  
Kachurung
  
Dialect 1
Azerbaijani Turkish
  
Turpan
  
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
26,000,000.00
  
9
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Crimean Turkish
  
Hotan
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Gagauz
  
Lop Nur
  
Where They Speak
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
75.00 million
  
23
10.40 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
60.00 million
  
20
8.20 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million
  
18
Not Available
  
Native Name
Türkçe
  
Уйғур /ئۇيغۇر (ujġgur / uyghur)
  
Alternative Names
Anatolian, Türkisch
  
Uighuir, Uighur, Uiguir, Uigur, Uygur, Weiwu’er, Wiga
  
French Name
turc
  
ouïgour
  
German Name
Türkisch
  
Uigurisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
  
[ʊjʁʊrˈtʃɛ], [ʊjˈʁʊr tili]
  
Ethnicity
Turkish
  
Uyghur
  
Origin
c. 1350
  
11
  
Language Family
Turkic Family
  
Turkic Family
  
Subgroup
Turkic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
  
Karakhanid, Chagatai, Eastern Turki
  
Standard Forms
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
  
Uyghur
  
Signed Forms
Turkish Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
tr
  
ug
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
tur
  
uig
  
ISO 639 2/B
tur
  
uig
  
ISO 639 3
tur
  
uig
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nucl1301
  
uigh1240
  
Linguasphere
44-AAB-a
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Not Available