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Welcome to the Wikilang introduction page for the Turkish language, or as we call it, Türkçe!

An Introduction to the Language

Turkish is spoken as the first language by over 63 million people worldwide. The modern variant has had some influence from Ottoman Turkish, which was used in the administration during the Ottoman Empire. Ottoman Turkish originally used a variant of the Arabic script, but this script was replaced with a specialized version of the Latin script. A lot of words in Ottoman Turkish were taken from Arabic and Persian loanwords, but there has been a movement as of late towards a language reform to purify the language and remove these loanwords, replacing them with native Turkish words. The language is agglutinating, uses vowel harmony, and has the verb at the end of the sentence.

Family

Altaic¹

• Turkic
  • Southwestern Turkic (Oghuz)
    • Western Oghuz
      • Turkish

• 1: The status of Turkic languages as Altaic is controversial.

Spoken in

Turkey and Cyprus, with a minority population in Germany, Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Kosovo, Albania, and other parts of Eastern Europe.