Turkish (Türkçe)

Turkish is a Turkic language with about 70 million speakers in Turkey and in 35 other countries, including Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, El Salvador, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Honduras, Iran, Iraq and Israel.

Until 1928, Turkish was written with a version of the Perso-Arabic script known as the Ottoman Turkish script. In 1928, as part of his efforts to modernise Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk issued a decree replacing the Arabic script with a version of the Latin alphabet, which has been used ever since. Nowadays, only scholars and those who learnt to read before 1928 can read Turkish written in the Arabic script.

Ottoman Turkish script

Ottoman Turkish abjad

Numerals

Arabic Numerals and Turkish numbers

Sample text

Sample text in the Ottoman Turkish script

Translation

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)

Latin alphabet for Turkish (türk alfabesi)

Turkish pronunciation

Sample text in Turkish

Bütün insanlar hür, haysiyet ve haklar bakımından eşit doğarlar. Akıl ve vicdana sahiptirler ve birbirlerine karşı kardeşlik zihniyeti ile hareket etmelidirler.

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Translation

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)

Longer sample text (Tower of Babel)

Useful phrases in Turkish

books   Turkish language courses, dictionaries, etc

Links

Online Turkish lessons
http://www.turkishlanguage.co.uk
http://cali.arizona.edu/maxnet/tur/
http://www.onlineturkish.com
http://cali.arizona.edu/maxnet/tur/
http://www.turkishclass.com
http://totally-turkish.com
http://www.exploreturkish.com
http://www.teachyourselfturkish.com

Online Turkish dictionaries
http://www.ingilizceturkce.com
http://www.turkce-ingilizce.com
http://www.kadifeli.com/cgi-bin/compdict.pl
http://www.ingilizce.com/sozluk/yenisozluk.htm
http://www.langtolang.com
http://www.termbank.net/psychology/
http://www.turktrans.net/idioms/
http://www.zargan.com
http://www.dictionarist.com/turkish/
http://www.japonca.da.ru
http://www.sozlukte.com
http://www.yeminlitercuman.com/english/bulten/
http://www.osmanlica.co.cc (Ottoman Turkish)

Free online translation between: Turkish and English, French, Italian, German, Spanish and Danish: http://www.hazar.com

Turkish Electronic talking dictionaries
http://www.ectaco.com

Online Turkish language radio
http://www.trt.net.tr
http://www.olayfm.com.tr
http://www.radyohiras.com

Online news in Turkish
http://www.turkcegazeteler.com
http://www.bbc.co.uk/turkish/

Related languages

Azerbaijani, Balkar, Bashkir, Chuvash, Crimean Tatar, Even, Evenki, Gagauz, Karakalpak, Kazak, Kumyk, Kyrghyz, Nanai, Tatar, Turkish, Turkmen, Uyghur, Uzbek, Yakut

Other languages written with the: Arabic, and Latin alphabets

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