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351 LANGUAGE FILE
Language name Turkish �t��kiʃ
Language name Turkana t���kɑ�nə
Autonym (if known and different) Türkçe
Autonym (if known and different)
Language family Altaic Turkic
Language family Nilo-Saharan Eastern Sudanic
Spoken in Turkey, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Greece
Spoken in Kenya
Approximate number of speakers 50m
Approximate number of speakers 340k
Writing system Roman (since 1929)
Writing system
Phonetics/phonology
Phonetics/phonology
Stress word-final
Stress
Contains following rare
consonant (types)
Said to have how many vowels? 8
Contains following rare
consonant (types)
Said to have how many vowels? 9 + voicelessness
Marked vowel types front rounded
Marked vowel types
Tone none
Tone register
Rhythm no information
Rhythm no information
Vowel harmony front–back and rounding
Vowel harmony ATR
Morphology agglutinative word-based
Morphology agglutinative stem-based
Particular formation types dvandva; incorporation; partial suffixed
reduplication; suffix
Particular formation types prefix; suffix
Syntax
Word order SOV AN postpositions
NPoss
Particular syntactic phenomena morphological aspect; nominative / accusative marking
Syntax
Word order VSO NA prepositions
NPoss
Particular syntactic phenomena noun classes
Points of interest
Points of interest
Sources Dimmendaal (1983), Haspelmath et al. (2005),
Katzner (1977)
Sources Campbell (1991), Katzner (1977), Kornfilt (1997),
Wälchli (2005)