Turkish language

E2737
Oghuz language Turkic language standard language

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.

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All labels observed (6)

Label Occurrences
Turkish 44
Turkish language canonical 32
Modern Turkish 4

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 ⓘ
Azerbaijani language ⓘ
surface form: Gagauz language

Turkmen language ⓘ
family Altaic languages (proposed) ⓘ
surface form: 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 Turkey ⓘ
surface form: Republic of Turkey

Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus ⓘ
primaryCountryWhereSpoken Cyprus ⓘ
Turkey ⓘ
recognizedMinorityLanguageIn Greece ⓘ
Iraq ⓘ
Kosovo ⓘ
North Macedonia ⓘ
Cyprus ⓘ
surface form: Republic of Cyprus

Romania ⓘ
reform Turkish alphabet ⓘ
surface form: Atatürk language reforms
reformDate 1928 alphabet reform ⓘ
regulatingBody Dutch Language Union ⓘ
surface form: 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 language ⓘ
surface form: Persian
writingDirection left-to-right ⓘ
writingSystem Turkish alphabet ⓘ
surface form: Turkish Latin alphabet

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