United States Foreign Service Institute
   Turkish Basic Course I

Learn Turkish - Speak Turkish

As Turkey, is a member country of NATO, individuals who learn to speak Turkish are in high demand by the United States government, and other international agencies.

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About the Turkish Language

Turkish is the principal language of the Republic of Turkey. It is a member, along with the related languages of Iranian and Soviet Azerbaijan and of various areas within the Soviet Union (mainly in Asia) of the Turkic group of the Altaic branch of the Uralic-Altaic language family. This Altaic branch also includes many other languages, mainly those grouped under the headings 'Mongol' and 'Manchu'. The Turkic languages are remarkably similar in structure and even in their vocabulary are as closely related to one another as the Romance group of Indo- European languages.

The population of the Republic of Turkey is about 70 million, the great majority of which are native speakers of Turkish, making Turkish by a considerable margin the largest language of the Turkic family. Among the remainder of the population of Turkey - native speakers of Kurdish, Laz, Circassian, Arabic, Greek, Armenian, Syriac and other languages - the great majority have some acquaintance with Turkish. Thus this language will serve the student for communication in all parts of Turkey, save the most isolated villages. In addition, substantial numbers of Turkish speakers are to be found in parts of Syria, Lebanon, Greece and Cyprus. Turkish can also serve the student as an introduction to the Turkic language family and provide them with a basis for establishing communication with Asian Turkic speakers as far east as Sinkiang Province in China and as far west as the Tatar regions on the Volga.

Turkish Reference Links

» U.S. State Department
» U.S. Embassy - Ankara, Turkey
» U.S. Central Intellegence Agency - Factbook
» U.S. Department of Energy - Country Analysis

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