Language · Turkic
Turkish
Türkçe – its own name
Official or co-official in 2 countries. Listed in 13 countries.
Endangerment: not endangered according to Glottolog (AES, CC BY 4.0)
- Speakers (estimate)
- c. 82 million
- sum over countries per CLDR, including second-language users
- Script
- Latin
Place in the family tree
- Turkic
- Common Turkic
- Oghuz
- Nuclear Oghuz
- West Oghuz
- Turkish
Nodes of the Glottolog tree (Glottolog, CC BY 4.0).
Where it is spoken
- Official 1
- Co-official 1
- Official in a region 1
- Widely used 1
- Minority 9
Official
- Türkiye 93% 78 million
Co-official
- Cyprus 23% 304 thousand
Official in a region
-
Kosovo
–
Official at municipal level (art. 5); CLDR gives no share of speakers in Kosovo.
Legal basis: Constitution of Kosovo (2008), art. 5 – Constitute Project, English translation
Widely used
- Bulgaria 11% 746 thousand
Minority
- Germany 2.5% 2.1 million
- Uzbekistan 0.6% 226 thousand
- Netherlands 1.2% 213 thousand
- Ukraine 0.4% 150 thousand
- United Kingdom 0.2% 137 thousand
- Greece 1.2% 126 thousand
- Canada 0.2% 85 thousand
- North Macedonia 3.5% 75 thousand
- Romania 0.1% 24 thousand