What is the language use in turkey?
The national language of Turkey, spoken by the majority of Turks, is Turkish. Turkish is an Altaic language, and belongs to the Turkic branch of this family. It is closely related to Azeri, Uzbek, Kyrgyz, Kazakh, and many other languages of Central Asia, and more distantly to members of other branches of the Altaic family, including Mongolian. A sizable number of people in the eastern regions of the country speak a minority language known as Kurdish. Kurdish is Indo-Iranian, meaning it is closely related to languages such as Farsi, Dari, Tajik, and Pashto. The Indo-Iranian languages form a branch of the larger Indo-European family, which also includes English. There is also a large minority of ethnic Armenians within Turkey, many of whom speak the Armenian language. Armenian is an Indo-European language occupying its own branch of the family, which only contains Armenian and a handful of critically endangered languages spoken in Armenia and other areas of the Caucuses.
