Turkish Language (tur) - Revision history

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Also Known As: Osmanli,Anatolian,Turki,Türkçe,Turkish,Türkisch,Turki...
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<tr><td><b>Also Known As:</b> Osmanli,Anatolian,Turki,Türkçe,Turkish,Türkisch,Turkish language

<b>Description:</b>

Turkish (Türkçe IPA [ˈt̪yɾktʃe] (help·info)) is spoken as a first language by over 63 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Cyprus, with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo, Albania and other parts of Eastern Europe. Turkish is also spoken by several million immigrants in Western Europe, particularly in Germany.
The roots of the language can be traced to Central Asia, with the first written records dating back nearly 1,200 years. To the west, the influence of Ottoman Turkish—the immediate precursor of today's Turkish—spread as the Ottoman Empire expanded. In 1928, as one of Atatürk's Reforms in the early years of the Republic of Turkey, the Ottoman script was replaced with a phonetic variant of the Latin alphabet. Concurrently, the newly founded Turkish Language Association initiated a drive to reform the language by removing Persian and Arabic loanwords in favor of native variants and coinages from Turkic roots.
The distinctive characteristics of Turkish are vowel harmony and extensive agglutination. The basic word order of Turkish is<i>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=29992 ..... full article at Wikipedia]</i></td></tr>
<tr><td><h2>Location of Turkish Language Speakers</h2>
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<tr><td><h2>Rosetta Document Collection</h2>
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<tr><td>Color:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_tur_color-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_tur_color-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td>Genesis Translation:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_tur_gen-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_tur_gen-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td>Miscellaneous:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_tur_misc-1_1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_tur_misc-1_1 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>2</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_tur_misc-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_tur_misc-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>3</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_tur_misc-2 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_tur_misc-2 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td>Orthography:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_tur_ortho-2 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_tur_ortho-2 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td>Phonology:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_tur_phon-2 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_tur_phon-2 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td>Universal Declaration Of Human Rights:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_tur_undec-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_tur_undec-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
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<h2>Overview</h2>

<tr><td><b>Main Country: </b></td><td>[http://www.freebase.com/view/en/turkey Turkey]</td></tr>

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<b><i>Regions: </i></b>[http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/asia Asia]
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<tr><td><b>ISO 639-1 Code: </b></td><td>tr</td></tr>

<tr><td><b>ISO 639-3 Code: </b></td><td>tur</td></tr>

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<tr><td><h2>Classification Taxonomy</h2>
[[All Languages]]

  [[Altaic Group]]

    [[Turkic Group]]

      [[Southern Turkic Group]]

        [[Turkish Group]]

          <b>[[Turkish Language]]</b>

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