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Turkish

Türkçe
tr 82M speakers

Turkish (Türkçe) is a Turkic language with approximately 82M speakers speakers. It is written using the Latin script. Its BCP 47 language code is tr.

Turkish (Türkçe) is a Turkic language and the official language of Turkey and Northern Cyprus. It is spoken by approximately 80 million people and is the most widely spoken member of the Turkic language family.

Turkish is an agglutinative language that builds words and expresses grammatical relationships by adding suffixes to root words. It underwent a major alphabet reform in 1928 under Kemal Atatürk, replacing the Ottoman Arabic script with a modified Latin alphabet. Turkish has vowel harmony — a feature whereby vowels in suffixes must match the vowels in the root word.

Writing Systems Used for Turkish

Latin
Primary
Hello World
LTR Latn

Frequently Asked Questions

What alphabet or script does Turkish use?
Turkish is written using the Latin script (ISO 15924 code: Latn). Latin is written left-to-right.
What direction is Turkish written?
Turkish is written Left-to-right. Text runs from left to right, the same direction as most European languages.
How many people speak Turkish?
Turkish has approximately 82M speakers speakers worldwide. It is a member of the Turkic language family.
What language family does Turkish belong to?
Turkish belongs to the Turkic language family. It is written with the Latin script.
What is the language code for Turkish?
The BCP 47 language code for Turkish is "tr". This code is used in software, web standards (the HTML lang attribute), and internationalization contexts.

Language Facts

BCP 47 Code
tr
ISO 639-3
tur
Status
living
Speakers
82M speakers
Language Family
Turkic
Scripts
1
Primary Script
Latin

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Data sourced from Unicode CLDR and ISO 639-3. Last updated April 20, 2026.