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Language code: tur

Technical information about ISO 639 language code tur

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The table below provides technical details for the Turkish language, designated by the tur code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

tur

Name

Official

Turkish

Native

Türkçe

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Istanbul (Standard) TurkishRumelian TurkishWestern Anatolian TurkishCentral Anatolian TurkishBlack Sea TurkishEastern Anatolian TurkishSoutheastern Anatolian TurkishCypriot Turkish
Related languages
AzerbaijaniTurkmenGagauzCrimean TatarQashqai
Key facts
Exhibits strict vowel harmony and agglutinative word formationSwitched from Arabic to a Latin-based alphabet in 1928Lacks grammatical gender and relies on case endings for syntax flexibilityVocabulary shows layers of Arabic, Persian, French, Italian and English borrowings, alongside modern purism effortsEarliest known Anatolian Turkish texts date to the 13th century, such as the works of Yunus Emre
Sample phrase

Merhaba, nasılsın?

Character encodings

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

Supported in Localizely

The Turkish language, identified by the code tur, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

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