Turkish

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Turkish is a Turkic language primarily spoken in Turkey and Northern Cyprus, and by Turkish communities across Europe and the Middle East.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Turkish canonical 112
English–Turkish 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (65)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Turkic language
language
closelyRelatedTo Azerbaijani
Gagauz
Turkmen
linked to: Turkmens
hasArticles false
hasGrammaticalGender false
hasPalatalHarmony true
hasRoundingHarmony true
hasVowelHarmony true
ISO639-1Code tr
ISO639-2Code tur
ISO639-3Code tur
languageFamily Turkic
linked to: Turkic languages
majorDialect Aegean dialect
Black Sea dialect
Eastern Anatolian dialect
Istanbul dialect
majorLoanwordSource Arabic
English
French
Italian
Persian
linked to: Persian language
morphologicalType agglutinative
nativeName Türkçe
nativeSpeakersApprox over 70 million
numberOfCases 6
numberOfVowels 8
officialStatusIn Northern Cyprus
Turkey
previousScript Ottoman Turkish alphabet
previousScriptType Arabic-based script
primaryCountry Northern Cyprus
Turkey
region Anatolia
Thrace
regulator Turkish Language Association
linked to: Türk Dil Kurumu
scriptReformYear 1928
spokenIn Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Belgium
Bulgaria
Canada
Cyprus
France
Germany
Greece
Iraq
Kosovo
Netherlands
North Macedonia
Northern Cyprus
Romania
Syria
Turkey
United Kingdom
United States
standardVariety Istanbul Turkish
linked to: Turkish language
subfamily Oghuz
totalSpeakersApprox over 80 million
usesPostpositions true
wordOrder SOV
writingDirection left-to-right
writingSystem Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (113)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Çubuk hasLanguage Turkish
Haymana languageUsed Turkish
MKE languageOfName Turkish
Yandex Translate supportsLanguagePairDirection English–Turkish
linked to: Turkish
Karabük languageUsed Turkish
Hemite languageSpoken Turkish
Kütahya languageUsed Turkish
Ziya languageOfOrigin Turkish
Didim languageUsed Turkish
Vazgeçemediğim language Turkish
Yenisi language Turkish
Latn isUsedForWriting Turkish
Serik languageUsed Turkish
Çumra languageUsed Turkish
Derebucak hasLanguage Turkish
Ahırlı hasOfficialLanguage Turkish
Çeltik hasOfficialLanguage Turkish
Cihanbeyli languageUsed Turkish
Suryoyo lexicalInfluenceFrom Turkish
Jawad languageOfUse Turkish
Mahmood languageOfUse Turkish
Mahmut languageOfUse Turkish
Dani Rodrik citizenship Turkish
subject linked to: Dani
Nadir usedInLanguage Turkish
Uğurlu hasOfficialLanguage Turkish
Saeed isUsedInLanguage Turkish
Chorlu hasOfficialLanguage Turkish
Yenice hasOfficialLanguage Turkish
Kapaklı hasOfficialLanguage Turkish
M40 line hasLanguage Turkish
Malkara languageUsed Turkish
Muratlı hasOfficialLanguage Turkish
Bayrampaşa languageUsed Turkish
Kepsut hasOfficialLanguage Turkish
Fatih languageOfOrigin Turkish
Havran hasOfficialLanguage Turkish