Turkish language

Turkish is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, with around 90 million speakers. It is the national language of Turkey and one of two official languages of... Wikipedia

  • Pronunciation:  Türkçe tr, Türk dili tr
  • Native to:  Turkey (official), Northern Cyprus (official), Cyprus (official), Azerbaijan, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Region:  Anatolia, Balkans, Cyprus, Mesopotamia, Levant, Transcaucasia
  • Ethnicity:  Turks
  • Native speakers:  e27, L2: million (2019), Total: million
  • Language family:  Turkic Common Turkic Oghuz Western Turkish
  • Early forms:  Old Anatolian Turkish Ottoman Turkish Turkish
  • Standard forms:  Istanbul Turkish
  • Dialects:  Cypriot Turkish, Iraqi Turkmen, Karamanli Turkish, Meskhetian Turkish, Rumelian Turkish, Syrian Turkish
  • Writing system:  Latin (Turkish alphabet), Turkish Braille
  • Official language in:  Cyprus, Northern Cyprus, Turkey
  • Recognised minority, language in:  Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Romania
  • ISO 639-1:  tr
  • ISO 639-2:  tur
  • ISO 639-3:  tur
  • Linguasphere:  part of 44-AAB-a
  • Data source:  DuckDuckGo