20 Facts About Turkish language

Significant smaller groups of Turkish language speakers exist in Iraq, Syria, Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Greece, the Caucasus, and other parts of Europe and Central Asia.

The Turkish language makes usage of honorifics and has a strong T–V distinction which distinguishes varying levels of politeness, social distance, age, courtesy or familiarity toward the addressee.

Turkish language is a member of the Oghuz group of the Turkic family.

Turkish language is mutually intelligible with Azerbaijani and other Turkic languages.

In particular, Turkish language-speaking minorities exist in countries that formerly belonged to the Ottoman Empire, such as Iraq, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece (primarily in Western Thrace), 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 ("Society for Research on the Turkish Language").

Some immigrants to Turkey from Rumelia speak Rumelian Turkish language, which includes the distinct dialects of Ludogorie, Dinler, and Adakale, which show the influence of the theoretized Balkan sprachbund.

At least one source claims Turkish language consonants are laryngeally-specified three-way fortis-lenis like Armenian.

Turkish language orthography reflects final-obstruent devoicing, a form of consonant mutation whereby a voiced obstruent, such as, is devoiced to at the end of a word or before a consonant, but retains its voicing before a vowel.

The dialect of Turkish language spoken in the Trabzon region of northeastern Turkey follows the reduced vowel harmony of Old Anatolian Turkish language, with the additional complication of two missing vowels, thus there is no palatal harmony.

Turkish language has two groups of sentences: verbal and nominal sentences.

Furthermore, Turkish language verbs show tense, mood (conditional, imperative, inferential, necessitative, and optative), and aspect.

Latest 2010 edition of Buyuk Turkce Sozluk, the official dictionary of the Turkish language published by Turkish Language Association, contains 616, 767 words, expressions, terms and nouns, including place names and person names, both from the standard language and from dialects.

Turkish language extensively uses agglutination to form new words from nouns and verbal stems.

However, the majority of compound words in Turkish language are compounds, which means that the second word will be marked by the 3rd person possessive suffix.

Turkish language is written using a Latin alphabet introduced in 1928 by Ataturk to replace the Ottoman Turkish language alphabet, a version of Perso-Arabic alphabet.

The task of preparing the new alphabet and selecting the necessary modifications for sounds specific to Turkish was entrusted to a Language Commission composed of prominent linguists, academics, and writers.

The introduction of the new Turkish language 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.

However, in 2011 UNESCO found whistling Turkish to be a dying language and included it in its intangible cultural heritage list.

Turkish language uses two standardised keyboard layouts, known as Turkish Q and Turkish F, with Turkish Q being the most common.