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زبان ترکی استانبولی
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زبانی ترکتبار در ترکیه
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Turkish is a natural and modern language belonging to the Turkic family. It is primarily spoken in Turkey, Bulgaria, Cyprus, and Greece. The language is native to Turks and is associated with the regions of Burgas, Kardzhali, and Smolyan. Its native label is Türkçe.
The language uses the Turkish alphabet, Arabic alphabet, and Turkish Braille. It follows a subject–object–verb word order and is classified as an agglutinative, syllabic, and synthetic language. Turkish has present, past, and future tenses, along with admirative, imperative, and indicative moods. It uses capitalization for proper nouns and days of the week. The Turkish Language Association serves as its regulatory body.
Turkish is based on Old Anatolian Turkish. It is studied through Turkology. The language has approximately 82,231,620 speakers, writers, or signers. It is referenced by 15,555 other encyclopedia articles. Films in this language are categorized under Turkish-language films.
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- Turkic
- Country
- Northern Cyprus
- Based on
- Old Anatolian Turkish
- Image
- Turkish alphabet.svg
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- Wikimedia language code
- tr
- Commons category
- Turkish language
- topic's main category
- Category:Turkish language
- writing system
- Turkish Braille
- language regulatory body
- Turkish Language Association
- native label
- Türkçe
- short name
- türgi keel
- linguistic typology
- postposition
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have
- category for films in this language
- Category:Turkish-language films
- indigenous to
- Rhodope Prefecture
- studied by
- Turkology
- uses capitalization for
- day of the week
- different from
- Turki
- P10369
- Diego Velázquez
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 380300
- P11012
- September 21
- entry in abbreviations table
- ਤੁ.
- has tense
- past tense
- described at URL
- turkic.elegantlexicon.com/lx.php?lx=tur
- P13311
- Rodger Bumpass
- exact match
- afbo.info/languages/81
- has grammatical case
- instrumental case
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Languages
- main regulatory text
- Constitution of Turkey
- Stack Exchange tag
- linguistics.stackexchange.com/tags/turkish
- ethnic group
- Turks
- female form of label
- la langue turque
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C154180
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