1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
South Africa
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Turkish Language Association
Pan South African Language Board
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.
- The meaning of word "Zulu" means "Sky"and Zulu was the name of the ancestor who founded the Zulu royal line in about 1670.
- Zulu language has many loanwords borrowed from Afrikaans and English Languages.
1.9 Similar To
Azerbaijani Language
Xhosa Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
teşekkür ederim
Ngiyabonga
3.3 How Are You?
3.4 Good Night
İyi Geceler
okuhle ebusuku
3.5 Good Evening
İyi Akşamlar
okuhle kusihlwa
3.6 Good Afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Seni seviyorum
Ngiyakuthanda wena
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Azerbaijani Turkish
Qwabe
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
Gabon, South Africa
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
26,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Crimean Turkish
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Georgia, South Africa
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
480,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
Zimbabwe
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
140,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
75.00 million30.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
60.00 million12.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
15.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Anatolian, Türkisch
Isizulu, Zunda
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Turkic Family
Niger-Congo Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Southwestern(Oghuz)
Beatu
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
urban Zulu
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
Deep Zulu
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Turkish Sign Language
Not Available
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology