Turkish Language

Turkish
Türkçe
Pronunciation	[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
Native to	Turkey (official), Northern Cyprus (official), Cyprus (official), Bulgaria, Macedonia, Greece, Iran,Azerbaijan,Kosovo, Romania, Iraq, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Syria
Region	Anatolia, Balkans, Cyprus, Mesopotamia, Levant, Transcaucasia
Ethnicity	Turkish
Native speakers	88 million (2014)
Language family	Turkic Common Turkic Oghuz Western Oghuz Turkish
Early forms	Old Anatolian Turkish Ottoman Turkish Turkish
Standard forms	Ottoman Turkish (defunct)
Dialects	Karamanli Turkish Cypriot Turkish
Writing system	Latin (Turkish alphabet) Turkish Braille
Official status
Official language in	Turkey  Northern Cyprus  Cyprus
Recognised minority language in	Bosnia and Herzegovina  Greece  Iraq  Kosovo  Macedonia  Romania
Regulated by	Turkish Language Association
Language codes
ISO 639-1	tr
ISO 639-2
ISO 639-3
Glottolog	nucl1301
Linguasphere	part of 44-AAB-a
Countries where Turkish is an official language   Countries where it is recognized as a minority language
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 Greece
 Iraq
 Kosovo
 Macedonia

Turkish ( Türkçe ), also referred to as Istanbul Turkish, is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, with around 10–15 million native speakers in Southeast Europe (mostly in East and Western Thrace) and 60–65 million native speakers in Western Asia (mostly in Anatolia). Outside of Turkey, significant smaller groups of speakers exist in Germany, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus (only recognized by Turkey), Greece, the Caucasus, and other parts of Europe and Central Asia.