Turkish

This article contains information about Turkish as it relates to Nationstates. For more general information, see the Wikipedia article on the subject.

Turkish is a Turkic language spokenly natively in most of Asia Minor and throughout many versions of the Ottoman Empire as well as by many millions of immigrants in Europe. The current number of native speakers is uncertain. This is largely due to extremely high population of the modern world and a lack of reliable linguistics statistics from many nations.

There is a large degree of interintelligibility between Turkish and other Oghuz languages such as Azeri, Turkmen, and Qashqai. If these languages are included as forms of Turkish, it substantially increases the number of speakers.