Turkish
tr · Türkçe
Turkish (tr) is written in the Latin script and has an estimated 82.4M speakers. It is an official language in Türkiye and Cyprus. CLDR has 3 locales for it.
Native nameTürkçe
ScriptLatinLatn
Speakers82.4Mestimated
Countries12
Locales3
Plural forms2one, other
Overview
- Code
- tr
- Native name
- Türkçe
- Script
- Latin Latn
- Likely region
- 🇹🇷 Türkiye
- Direction
- Left to right
- Plural categories
- one
- other
- Ordinal categories
- other
Where it is spoken
| Country | Status | Share of population |
|---|---|---|
| 🇹🇷 Türkiye | Official | 93% |
| 🇨🇾 Cyprus | Official | 23% |
| 🇧🇬 Bulgaria | 11% | |
| 🇲🇰 North Macedonia | 3.5% | |
| 🇩🇪 Germany | 2.5% | |
| 🇬🇷 Greece | 1.2% | |
| 🇳🇱 Netherlands | 1.2% | |
| 🇺🇿 Uzbekistan | 0.62% | |
| 🇺🇦 Ukraine | 0.42% | |
| 🇨🇦 Canada | 0.22% | |
| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | 0.2% | |
| 🇷🇴 Romania | 0.13% |
Plural categories
| Category | Examples |
|---|---|
| one | 1 |
| other | 0, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, … |