Turkish

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A language of Turkey

ISO 639-3
tur
Alternate Names
Anatolian, Türkçe, Türkisch
Population

46,300,000 in Turkey (1987). Population total all countries: 50,733,420.

Location

Widespread as L1 or L2. Also in Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, Egypt, El Salvador, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Honduras, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Netherlands, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan.

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Language Status

1 (National). Statutory national language (1982, Constitution, Article 3).

Classification
Altaic, Turkic, Southern, Turkish
Dialects

Danubian, Dinler, Edirne, Eskisehir, Gaziantep, Karamanli, Razgrad, Rumelian, Urfa. Danubian is west; other dialects east.

Typology

SOV

Language Use

Karamanli are Turkish-speaking Greeks.

Language Development
Fully developed. Bible: 1827–2006.
Language Resources
OLAC resources in and about Turkish
Writing
Arabic script, no longer in use. Braille script. Greek script, no longer in use. Latin script, used since 1928 or 1929, primary usage.
Other Comments

Muslim.

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