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Language code: tr

Technical information about ISO 639 language code tr

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The table below provides technical details for the Turkish language, designated by the tr code from the ISO 639-1 standard.

Code

tr

Name

Official

Turkish

Native

Türkçe

Family
Oghuz
Scripts
Latin
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Plural rules

More info

Language varieties
Istanbul (Standard) TurkishRumelian TurkishWestern Anatolian TurkishCentral Anatolian TurkishEastern Anatolian TurkishCypriot Turkish
Related languages
AzerbaijaniTurkmenGagauzCrimean TatarUzbek
Key facts
Largest member of the Oghuz Turkic subgroupAgglutinative structure with strict vowel harmonySwitched to a Latin-based alphabet in 1928Marks evidentiality with distinct past-tense formsDefault word order is Subject-Object-Verb but is flexible due to case suffixes
Sample phrase

Merhaba, nasılsın?

Character encodings

ISO 8859-9, Windows 1254, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

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Turkish belongs to the Turkic language family, more specifically to the Oghuz subgroup. It is the official language of Turkey and one of the official languages of Cyprus. It is written using the Latin script (Turkish alphabet). It is estimated that there are around 90 million speakers worldwide.

Language presence globally

Speakers

Turkey

83M

Cyprus

300K

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Turkish speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

Related locale codes

tr-CY – Turkish (Cyprus)

tr-TR – Turkish (Türkiye)

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