Turkish

Also known as Turkish of Turkey, Istanbul Turkish, Türkçe, Anatolian Turkish, Turkish language

Oghuz Turkic language of the Turkish people

AI overview

Turkish is the main language spoken by the Turkish people and belongs to the Turkic language family. It matters because it is the official language of Turkey and is spoken by millions of people across Turkey and Turkish diaspora communities around the world.

AI-generated from the Wikipedia summary — may contain errors.

Wikidata facts

Image: Turkish alphabet.svg

Show 14 more facts

Wikimedia language code: tr
Commons category: Turkish language
native label: Türkçe
short name: türgi keel
P10369: Diego Velázquez
number of speakers, writers, or signers: 380300
P11012: September 21
entry in abbreviations table: ਤੁ.
described at URL: turkic.elegantlexicon.com/lx.php?lx=tur
P13311: Rodger Bumpass
exact match: afbo.info/languages/81
Stack Exchange tag: linguistics.stackexchange.com/tags/turkish
female form of label: la langue turque
NCI Thesaurus ID: C154180

Sources (12)

via Wikidata · CC0

~40 min read

Article

Turkish (Türkçe [ˈtyɾctʃɛ], Türk dili, also known as Türkiye Türkçesi 'Turkish of Turkey') 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 Cyprus. Significant smaller groups of Turkish speakers also exist in Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Greece, other parts of Europe, the South Caucasus, and some parts of Central Asia, Iraq, and Syria. Turkish is the 18th-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 Perso-Arabic script-based Ottoman Turkish alphabet was replaced with the Latin script-based Turkish alphabet.