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Turkish language, member of the Turkic subdivision of the Altaic subfamily of the Ural-Altaic family of languages. Turkish is the official language of Turkey and one of the official languages of Cyprus. It is spoken by about 55 million people in Turkey and another million in Bulgaria, Greece, Cyprus, and Macedonia. The speech of educated people in Istanbul is the standard form of the language. Like the other Uralic and Altaic languages, Turkish is characterized by vowel harmony and agglutination. Thus suffixes added to the stem of the verb may indicate passive, reflexive, causative, and other meanings. Postpositions are used instead of prepositions. Both the definite article and grammatical gender are lacking. Turkish was written in the Arabic script following the conversion of the Turks to Islam, but in 1928 the Turkish president, Kemal Ataturk, ordered a change to a modified version of the Roman alphabet. The reform was designed to introduce an alphabet better suited to Turkish than the Arabic script and also to lessen the hold of Islam on Turkey. In the 1930s the Turks attempted to purify their language by eliminating words of foreign, especially Persian and Arabic, origin and to simplify the literary style of the language, making it more similar to colloquial Turkish.

TURKISH: a language of Turkey (Asia)
SIL code: TRK
ISO 639-1: tr
ISO 639-2: tur
ISO 639-2: ota

Population 46,278,000 in Turkey, 90% of the population (1987). Population total all countries 61,000,000 (1999 WA).

Region Spoken throughout Turkey as first or second language. Also spoken in 35 other countries including Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, El Salvador, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Honduras, Iran, Iraq, Israel.

Alternate names TURKCE, TURKISCH, ANATOLIAN
Dialects DANUBIAN, ESKISEHIR, RAZGRAD, DINLER, RUMELIAN, KARAMANLI, EDIRNE, GAZIANTEP, URFA.

Classification Altaic, Turkic, Southern, Turkish.

Comments Danubian is western; other dialects are eastern. The Karamanli are Turkish-speaking Greeks. National language. Dictionary. Grammar. SOV. Roman script now used. Muslim. Bible 1827-1941.

Also spoken in:
Bulgaria Language name TURKISH
Population 845,550 in Bulgaria, 9% of the population (1986).
Alternate names OSMANLI, TURKI
Dialects DANUBIAN, RAZGRAD, DINLER, MACEDONIAN TURKISH.
Comments The Turkish language is gradually being replaced by Bulgarian, although Islam and ethnic identity remain strong. Natural growth has been balanced by emigration to Turkey. Official language. Muslim. Bible 1827-1941.


Cyprus Language name TURKISH
Population 177,000 in Cyprus (1995), 20% of the population.
Alternate names OSMANLI
Comments National language. Muslim. Bible 1827-1941.


Greece Language name TURKISH
Population 128,380 in Greece (1976 WA).
Alternate names OSMANLI
Comments The number of Turks in Greece remains fairly constant, because growth is offset by a steady flow of emigration to Turkey. Muslim, Christian. Bible 1827-1941.


Macedonia Language name TURKISH
Population 250,000 in Macedonia and Yugoslavia (1982 estimate).
Alternate names OSMANLI
Dialects MACEDONIAN, DINLER.
Comments Sunni and Bektashi Muslim. Bible 1827-1941.


Romania Language name TURKISH
Population 150,000 in Romania (1993 Johnstone).
Alternate names OSMANLI
Dialects DANUBIAN.
Comments Muslim. Bible 1827-1941.


Uzbekistan Language name TURKISH
Population 197,000 estimate in Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrghyzstan (based on 1979 census, not counting 56,000 'Turks of Fergana', who speak an Uzbek dialect).
Alternate names OSMANLI
Dialects DANUBIAN, ESKISEHIR, RAZGRAD, DINLER, RUMELIAN, KARAMANLI, EDIRNE, GAZIANTEP, URFA.
Comments The Danubian dialect is western, other dialects are eastern. Bilingualism in Azerbaijani. Some speak Turkish; others Azerbaijani. Meskhetian Georgians, Khemshel Armenians, and Kurds in Uzbekistan speak Turkish. Sunni Muslim. Bible 1827-1941.