What are languages spoken in Turkey?

Turkish
Turkey/Official languages

How many languages are there ethnologue?

Ethnologue (24th edition) has data to indicate that of the currently listed 7,139 living languages, 4,065 have a developed writing system.

What language is similar to Turkish language?

Turkish is most closely related to other Turkic languages, including Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Uzbek and Kazakh. Another theory is that it is one of the many Altaic languages, which also include Japanese, Mongolian, and Korean.

Does Turkey have an official language?

The Constitution of Turkey not only names Turkish as the country’s only official language, but its 42nd Article also explicitly prohibits any education or training institution from teaching any language that is not Turkish as a mother tongue to Turkish citizens.

How many people in the world speak the Turkic language?

Turkic languages are spoken as a native language by some 170 million people, and the total number of Turkic speakers, including second language speakers, is over 200 million.

Who are the speakers of the Turkmen language?

Turkmen language. It is a Turkic language spoken by 3.5 million people in Turkmenistan as well as by around 719,000 people in northeastern Iran. The group known as “Iraqi Turkmen” are actually speakers of South Azeri and not all tribes that are called “Turkmen” in northeastern Iran are speakers of Turkmen; many are speakers of Khorasani Turkic.

What is the structure of the Turkish language?

Turkish 1 Status. Turkish is the official language of Turkey where it is spoken by 67 million people as a first and by another 350,000 people as a second language ( Ethnologue 2 Dialects. Turkish has a number of dialects. 3 Structure. Turkish has 28 phonemes, i.e., sounds that make a difference in word meaning.

Which is the official language of the Republic of Turkey?

Turkish is the official language of Turkey where it is spoken by 67 million people as a first and by another 350,000 people as a second language ( Ethnologue ). It is also the official language of Cyprus along with Greek.