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Turkish

Turkish

Summary

Turkish is natively spoken by about 76 million people, primarily in Turkey, where it is the official language, and among Turkish communities in Europe and Central Asia. It is integral to Turkish cultural identity, known for its Ottoman heritage, traditional music such as Turkish classical and folk music, and cuisine. Written in the Latin alphabet (since 1928), Turkish grammar features a subject-object-verb (SOV) word order, vowel harmony, and agglutination, where suffixes are added to roots to modify meaning.

Stats

  • Language Family: Turkic

  • Writing System: Latin

  • Writing System Type: Alphabet

  • Writing Direction: L to R

  • Tones / Pitch Accent: N

  • Morphology: Agglutinative

  • Cases: 6

  • Grammatical Gender / Noun Class: 0

  • Number of Verb Tenses: 4

  • Word Order: SOV

  • Number of Vowels (Monophthongs): 8

  • Number of Consonants: 23

Areas Where Spoken

  • Syria (7.3%) (1.62 mil)

  • Turkey (official) (87.6%) (74.4 mil)

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