Turkish language

E2737

Turkish is a Turkic language primarily spoken in Turkey and Cyprus, known for its vowel harmony, agglutinative grammar, and modern standard form established after Atatürk’s language reforms.

All labels observed (6)

Label Occurrences
Turkish 44
Turkish language canonical 32
Modern Turkish 4

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (88)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Oghuz language
Turkic language
standard language
approximateNumberOfNativeSpeakers over 75 million
approximateNumberOfTotalSpeakers over 80 million
belongsToLanguageGroup Southwestern Turkic
closelyRelatedTo Azerbaijani language
Gagauz language
Turkmen language
family Turkic languages
hasCaseSystem ablative
accusative
dative
genitive
locative
nominative
hasDialect Aegean dialects
Balkan Turkish
Black Sea dialects
Cypriot Turkish
Eastern Anatolian dialects
Istanbul dialect
hasFeature SOV basic word order
agglutinative morphology
evidentiality marking
extensive suffixation
lack of grammatical gender
phonemic vowel length is limited
politeness distinctions in second person pronouns
postpositions instead of prepositions
productive derivational morphology
stress usually on final syllable
vowel harmony
hasNumberSystem plural
singular
hasPhonemeInventory 8 vowels
approximately 21 consonants
hasSignificantSpeakerCommunityIn Austria
Azerbaijan
Belgium
Bulgaria
France
Germany
Iraq
Netherlands
Syria
United Kingdom
hasTenseAspectSystem aorist
future
past
perfect
present
progressive
historicalForm Old Anatolian Turkish
Ottoman Turkish
languageCodeISO639-1 tr
languageCodeISO639-2 tur
languageCodeISO639-3 tur
majorPeriodOfLanguagePurification 20th century
officialLanguageOf Republic of Turkey
linked to: Turkey

Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
primaryCountryWhereSpoken Cyprus
Turkey
recognizedMinorityLanguageIn Greece
Iraq
Kosovo
North Macedonia
Republic of Cyprus
linked to: Cyprus

Romania
reform Atatürk language reforms
linked to: Turkish alphabet
reformDate 1928 alphabet reform
regulatingBody Turkish Language Association
regulatingBodyInTurkish Türk Dil Kurumu
scriptAfterReform Latin-based Turkish alphabet
scriptBeforeReform Ottoman Turkish Arabic script
standardVariety Istanbul Turkish
subfamily Oghuz branch
usedIn Turkish government administration
Turkish literature
Turkish media
education in Turkey
usesLoanwordsFrom Arabic
English
French
Italian
Persian
linked to: Persian language
writingDirection left-to-right
writingSystem Turkish Latin alphabet
linked to: Turkish alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (83)

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

Latin alphabet writingSystemFor Turkish language
Middle East dominantLanguage Turkish
linked to: Turkish language
Romanian language influencedBy Turkish language
Albanian language hasLoanwordSource Turkish
linked to: Turkish language
Turkish alphabet writingSystemOf Turkish language
Romani language influencedBy Turkish language
Levantine Arabic lexicalInfluenceFrom Turkish
linked to: Turkish language
Sudanese Arabic influencedBy Turkish language
Google Translate availableLanguage Turkish
linked to: Turkish language
Azerbaijani language closelyRelatedTo Turkish language
Balkan Turkish subclassOf Turkish language
Turkmen language closelyRelatedTo Turkish language
Megleno-Romanian hasInfluenceFrom Turkish
linked to: Turkish language
Cypriot Turkish closelyRelatedTo Standard Turkish
linked to: Turkish language
Old Anatolian Turkish ancestorOf Modern Turkish
linked to: Turkish language
Ottoman Turkish replacedBy Modern Turkish
linked to: Turkish language
Janissaries languageName Turkish: Yeniçeri
linked to: Turkish language
Whisper supportsLanguage Turkish
linked to: Turkish language
Michael isUsedInLanguage Turkish
linked to: Turkish language
Egyptian Arabic influencedBy Turkish language
Croatian hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Turkish
linked to: Turkish language
Turks ethnicLanguage Turkish language
Kurdish language lexicalInfluenceFrom Turkish
linked to: Turkish language
David isUsedInLanguage Turkish
linked to: Turkish language
Turkish Land Forces mottoLanguage Turkish
linked to: Turkish language
Cappadocian Greek languageContactWith Turkish
linked to: Turkish language
Sorani hasLoanwordsFrom Turkish
linked to: Turkish language
Cypriot Greek influencedBy Turkish language
Armand hasLanguageOfUse Turkish
linked to: Turkish language
Gagauz traditionalCuisineInfluences Turkish
linked to: Turkish language
Turkish nationalism emphasizes Turkish language
Turkic languages largestLanguageBySpeakers Turkish
linked to: Turkish language
Transeurasian languages hasMajorLanguage Turkish
linked to: Turkish language
Bulgarian language influencedBy Turkish language
Balkan Sprachbund hasMemberLanguage Turkish language
Salyr dialect lexicalSimilarityWith Turkish language
Lars Johanson hasWrittenAbout Turkish language
Anatolia modernLanguageMajority Turkish
linked to: Turkish language
Vlach (Aromanian people) historicalLanguageContactWith Turkish language
subject linked to: Vlach (in some contexts)
Qashqai closelyRelatedTo Turkish language
Qashqai sharesLexiconWith Turkish language
Tabriz dialect relatedTo Turkish language
TDK regulates Turkish language
Perge modernNameLanguage Turkish
linked to: Turkish language
Khorasani Turkic sharesFeaturesWith Turkish
linked to: Turkish language
Seyla Benhabib nationality Turkish
linked to: Turkish language
Ottoman Turkish ancestorOf Modern Turkish
subject linked to: ota
linked to: Turkish language
Ottoman Turkish replacedBy Modern Standard Turkish
subject linked to: ota
linked to: Turkish language
Gazi language Turkish
linked to: Turkish language
Oghuz Turkic language includesLanguage Turkish language