Turkish

Turkic82 million totalLatin

RegionTurkey

FamilyTurkic

Speakers82 million total

ScriptLatin

TypeAlphabetic

About Turkish

Switched from Arabic script to Latin in 1928 under Ataturk. A model of linguistic engineering, the language reform replaced thousands of Arabic and Persian loanwords. Uses vowel harmony extensively. Has no grammatical gender. Agglutinative with very long words possible.

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