Largest Turkic language with approx. 45 mil-lion speakers, the official language of Turkey. Characteristics (many of which are typical of Altaic languages): vowel harmony, rich agglutinating morphology, rich case system, agreement, SOV word order which...

Turkish (Türkçe IPA [ˈt̪yɾktʃe] (help·info)) is a language spoken by 65–73 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey, with smaller communities in...