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Turkish Language

Turkish Language is mainly used in Turkey. Around 65-73 million people speak in this language all over the world. Some of the Cyprus, Greece and European people speak in this language. The root of the language lies in Central Asia. The date of the first written records can be traced back to 1,200 years.

Turkish Language is influenced by Ottoman Turkish which is now replaced with a phonetic variant of the Latin alphabet. Recently Turkish Language Association has decided to remove Persian and Arabic words to facilitate the native variants.

Vowel harmony, extensive agglutination characterizes Turkish Language. Subject Object Verb is the basic word order of Turkish. In case of Turkish Language second person plural forms can be used for individuals as a sign of respect. Even noun classes and grammatical gender is absent in this language.

Turkish Language belongs to the subgroup of the Oghuz languages, a language family that includes thirty living languages spoken across Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Siberia. Mutual intelligibility is present between Turkish Language and all other Oghuz languages including Gagauz, Turkmen, Azeri and Qashqai.

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