Turkish, referred to as Turkey Turkish, is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, with around 80 to 90 million speakers.
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19 Facts About Turkey Turkish
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Significant smaller groups of Turkey Turkish speakers exist in Iraq, Syria, Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Greece, the Caucasus, and other parts of Europe and Central Asia.
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Distinctive characteristics of the Turkey Turkish language are vowel harmony and extensive agglutination.
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Turkey Turkish is a member of the Oghuz group of the Turkic family.
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Turkey Turkish language is mutually intelligible with Azerbaijani and other Turkic languages.
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In particular, Turkey Turkish-speaking minorities exist in countries that formerly belonged to the Ottoman Empire, such as Iraq, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, the Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, and Serbia.
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In Turkey, the regulatory body for Turkish is the Turkish Language Association, which was founded in 1932 under the name Turk Dili Tetkik Cemiyeti .
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Academic researchers from Turkey often refer to Turkish dialects as agiz or sive, leading to an ambiguity with the linguistic concept of accent, which is covered with these words.
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At least one source claims Turkey Turkish consonants are laryngeally-specified three-way fortis-lenis like Armenian.
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The dialect of Turkish spoken in the Trabzon region of northeastern Turkey follows the reduced vowel harmony of Old Anatolian Turkish, with the additional complication of two missing vowels, thus there is no palatal harmony.
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Turkey Turkish has two groups of sentences: verbal and nominal sentences.
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Turkey Turkish is an agglutinative language and frequently uses affixes, and specifically suffixes, or endings.
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Turkey Turkish extensively uses agglutination to form new words from nouns and verbal stems.
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However, the majority of compound words in Turkey Turkish are I compounds, which means that the second word will be marked by the 3rd person possessive suffix.
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Turkey Turkish is written using a Latin alphabet introduced in 1928 by Ataturk to replace the Ottoman Turkey Turkish alphabet, a version of Perso-Arabic alphabet.
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The task of preparing the new alphabet and selecting the necessary modifications for sounds specific to Turkey Turkish was entrusted to a Language Commission composed of prominent linguists, academics, and writers.
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The introduction of the new Turkey Turkish alphabet was supported by public education centers opened throughout the country, cooperation with publishing companies, and encouragement by Ataturk himself, who toured the country teaching the new letters to the public.
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Turkey Turkish now has an alphabet suited to the sounds of the language: the spelling is largely phonemic, with one letter corresponding to each phoneme.
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However, in 2011 UNESCO found whistling Turkey Turkish to be a dying language and included it in its intangible cultural heritage list.
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