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Turkish (Türkçe, Türk dili; also Türkiye Türkçesi 'Turkish of Turkey') is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, with around 80 to 90 million speakers. It is the national language of [[Turkey]] and [[Northern Cyprus]]. Significant smaller groups of Turkish speakers also exist in [[Germany]], [[Austria]], [[Bulgaria]], [[North Macedonia]], [[Greece]], [[Cyprus]], other parts of Europe, the Caucasus, and some parts of Central Asia, [[Iraq]], and [[Syria]]. | |||
[[Cyprus]] has requested the [[European Union]] to add Turkish as an official language, even though Turkey is not a member state. | |||
Turkish is the 13th most spoken language in the world. | |||
To the west, the influence of Ottoman Turkish—the variety of the Turkish language that was used as the administrative and literary language of the Ottoman Empire—spread as the Ottoman Empire expanded. In 1928, as one of Atatürk's Reforms in the early years of the Republic of Turkey, the Ottoman Turkish alphabet was replaced with a Latin alphabet. | |||
The distinctive characteristics of the Turkish language are vowel harmony and extensive agglutination. The basic word order of Turkish is subject–object–verb. Turkish has no noun classes or grammatical gender. The language makes usage of honorifics and has a strong T–V distinction which distinguishes varying levels of politeness, social distance, age, courtesy or familiarity toward the addressee. The plural second-person pronoun and verb forms are used referring to a single person out of respect. | |||
Latest revision as of 16:11, 12 May 2023
| Turkish | |
|---|---|
| Language code (ISO 639-1) | tr |
| Language code (ISO 639-2) 3-char | tur |
| Native speakers (L1) | 82000000 |
| 2nd language speakers (L2) | 5900000 |
| Wikipedia page to check | wikipedia:Turkish language |
Turkish (Türkçe, Türk dili; also Türkiye Türkçesi 'Turkish of Turkey') is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, with around 80 to 90 million speakers. It is the national language of Turkey and Northern Cyprus. Significant smaller groups of Turkish speakers also exist in Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Greece, Cyprus, other parts of Europe, the Caucasus, and some parts of Central Asia, Iraq, and Syria.
Cyprus has requested the European Union to add Turkish as an official language, even though Turkey is not a member state.
Turkish is the 13th most spoken language in the world.
To the west, the influence of Ottoman Turkish—the variety of the Turkish language that was used as the administrative and literary language of the Ottoman Empire—spread as the Ottoman Empire expanded. In 1928, as one of Atatürk's Reforms in the early years of the Republic of Turkey, the Ottoman Turkish alphabet was replaced with a Latin alphabet.
The distinctive characteristics of the Turkish language are vowel harmony and extensive agglutination. The basic word order of Turkish is subject–object–verb. Turkish has no noun classes or grammatical gender. The language makes usage of honorifics and has a strong T–V distinction which distinguishes varying levels of politeness, social distance, age, courtesy or familiarity toward the addressee. The plural second-person pronoun and verb forms are used referring to a single person out of respect.