Turkish language
| Countries (spoken in): |
Turkey, Bulgaria, Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo, Romania, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Syria, Azerbaijan |
| Official status: |
Turkey, Cyprus, Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo |
| Total speakers: |
over 50 million speakers |
Turkish language — is a language spoken by over 50 million people worldwide[4], making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey, with smaller groups in Cyprus, Bulgaria, and other parts of Eastern Europe.
The earliest known Turkic inscriptions reside in modern Mongolia. The Bugut inscriptions written in the Sogdian alphabet during the First Göktürk Khanate are dated to the second half of the 6th century.
The two monumental Orkhon inscriptions, erected in honour of the prince Kul Tigin and his brother Emperor Bilge Khan and dating back to some time between 732 and 735.
After the foundation of the Republic of Turkey and the script reform, the Turkish Language Association (TDK) was established in 1932 under the patronage of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, with the aim of conducting research on Turkish.
Istanbul Turkish is established as the official standard language of Turkey. Dialectal variation persists, in spite of the levelling influence of the standard used in mass media and the Turkish education system since the 1930s.
The standard dialect of the Turkish language is İstanbul. Rumelice is spoken by immigrants from Rumelia, and includes the distinct dialects of Deliorman, Dinler, and Adakale, which are influenced by the theoretized Balkan linguistic union. Kıbrıs is the name for Cypriot Turkish and is spoken by the Turkish Cypriots. Edirne is the dialect of Edirne. Ege is spoken in the Aegean region, with its usage extending to Antalya.
The nomadic Yörük tribes of the Mediterranean Region of Turkey also have their own dialect of Turkish.
Turkish is an agglutinative language and frequently uses affixes, and specifically suffixes, or endings.[38] One word can have many affixes and these can also be used to create new words, such as creating a verb from a noun, or a noun from a verbal root.
Turkish online translators
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