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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
115
Bhojpuri
0 46
1.3 National Language
Turkey
China, Taiwan
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
Indonesia, Malaysia
1.7 Regulated By
Turkish Language Association
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
1.8 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.
  • Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
  • In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
1.9 Similar To
Azerbaijani Language
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2926
Irish
18 247
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
824
Hebrew
0 32
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2123
German
9 60
2.4 Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
66
Bengali
2 12
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
Cebuano
3 88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Merhaba
您好 (Nín hǎo)
3.2 Thank You
teşekkür ederim
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
3.3 How Are You?
Nasılsın?
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
3.4 Good Night
İyi Geceler
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
3.5 Good Evening
İyi Akşamlar
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Tünaydın
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
3.7 Good Morning
günaydın
早安 (Zǎo ān)
3.8 Please
lütfen
请 (Qǐng)
3.9 Sorry
üzgünüm
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
3.10 Bye
Hoşçakal
再见 (Zàijiàn)
3.11 I Love You
Seni seviyorum
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
3.12 Excuse Me
Afedersiniz
劳驾 (Láojià)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Azerbaijani Turkish
Mandarin
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
26,000,000.00960,000,000.00
Macedonian
1.5 960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Crimean Turkish
Wu
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
China, United States of America
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
480,000.0080,000,000.00
Dzongkha
700 80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Gagauz
Yue
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
140,000.0060,000,000.00
Romanian
1400 96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
910
Sanskrit
0 188
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
75.00 million1,051.00 million
Abkhaz
0.13 1200
5.2 Speaking Population
0.95 %16.00 %
Xhosa
0.11 89
5.3 Native Speakers
60.00 million873.00 million
Abkhaz
0.13 873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
15.00 million178.00 million
Finnish
0.01 400
5.3.2 Native Name
Türkçe
中文 (zhōngwén)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Anatolian, Türkisch
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
turc
chinois
5.3.5 German Name
Türkisch
Chinesisch
5.4 Pronunciation
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Turkish
Han
6 History
6.1 Origin
c. 1350
1250 BC
6.2 Language Family
Turkic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Turkic
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
Southwestern(Oghuz)
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
Standard Chinese
6.3.3 Language Position
191
Persian
1 120
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Turkish Sign Language
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
6.4 Scope
Individual
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
tr
zh
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
tur
zho
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
tur
chi
7.3 ISO 639 3
tur
zho
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
nucl1301
sini1245
7.6 Linguasphere
44-AAB-a
79-AAA
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating

Turkish vs Chinese Speaking Countries

There are plenty of languages spoken around the world. Every country has its own official language. Compare Turkish vs Chinese speaking countries, so that you will have total count of countries that speak Turkish or Chinese language.

  • Turkish is spoken as a national language in: Turkey.
  • Chinese is spoken as a national language in: China, Taiwan.

You will also get to know the continents where Turkish and Chinese speaking countries lie. Based on the number of people that speak these languages, the position of Turkish language is 19 and position of Chinese language is 1. Find all the information about these languages on Turkish and Chinese.

Turkish and Chinese Language History

Comparison of Turkish vs Chinese language history gives us differences between origin of Turkish and Chinese language. History of Turkish language states that this language originated in c. 1350 whereas history of Chinese language states that this language originated in 1250 BC. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Turkish and Chinese Language History.

Turkish and Chinese Greetings

People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Turkish and Chinese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Turkish and Chinese language. Turkish word for "Hello" is Merhaba or Chinese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢 (Xièxiè). Find more of such common Turkish Greetings and Chinese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Turkish vs Chinese Difficulty

The Turkish vs Chinese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Turkish Alphabets and Chinese Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Turkish and Chinese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Turkish and Chinese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Turkish is 44 weeks while to learn Chinese time required is 88 weeks.