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ISO 639-3 · turtur
Turkic family

Turkish

Türkçe

Turkish is a language of the Western Oghuz branch (Turkic), spoken in Cyprus, Turkey, Bulgaria and Greece. Wikidata counts 82.2 m first-language speakers (2021) and 5.9 m who speak it as a second language. Wikidata describes it as “Oghuz Turkic language of the Turkish people”.

1 · National88.1 m
Wikidata recordGlottolog
At a glance
ISO 639-3
tur
ISO 639-1
tr
Glottocode
nucl1301
Family
Turkic
UNESCO
Safe
Centre point
40.00, 30.00
Wikipedia
249 language editions
82.2 mfirst-language speakers
5.9 msecond-language speakers
4countries
1scripts
4levels in the tree
1EGIDS level

Facts

NameTurkish · Türkçe
Also calledTurkish of Turkey, Istanbul Turkish, Türkçe, Anatolian Turkish, Turkish language
L1 speakers82,231,620 (2021)
L2 speakers5,870,300 (2021)
Written inTurkish alphabet
Official inCyprus, Turkey
Grammatical cases7 listed in Wikidata

Vitality

EGIDS 1 National1

Institutional. Used in government, education and media — EGIDS 0 to 4.

Other languages at this level
UNESCO: Safe
Languages at this level
family tree

From Turkic to Turkish

The branches above Turkish, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.

41Turkicfamily38Common Turkic languagesbranch10Oghuzbranch4Western OghuzbranchturTurkishlanguage
where it is spoken

Map and countries

A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.

Map of the area where Turkish is spoken
Map: Kurmanbek · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Cyprusofficial · 4 languages in the indexTurkeyofficial · 40 languages in the indexBulgaria8 languages in the indexGreece17 languages in the index

Also spoken in Cyprus

ellModern GreekIndo-European · 15 m1 · NationalhyeArmenianIndo-European · 6.7 m1 · NationalacyCypriot ArabicAfroasiatic · 1407 · Shifting