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Some facts about Turkish language
Turkish language, member of the Turkic subdivision of the
Altaic subfamily of the Ural-Altaic family of languages. Turkish
is the official language of Turkey and one of the official
languages of Cyprus. It is spoken by about 55 million people
in Turkey and another million in Bulgaria, Greece, Cyprus,
and Macedonia. The speech of educated people in Istanbul is
the standard form of the language. Like the other Uralic and
Altaic languages, Turkish is characterized by vowel harmony
and agglutination. Thus suffixes added to the stem of the
verb may indicate passive, reflexive, causative, and other
meanings. Postpositions are used instead of prepositions.
Both the definite article and grammatical gender are lacking.
Turkish was written in the Arabic script following the conversion
of the Turks to Islam, but in 1928 the Turkish president,
Kemal Ataturk, ordered a change to a modified version of the
Roman alphabet. The reform was designed to introduce an alphabet
better suited to Turkish than the Arabic script and also to
lessen the hold of Islam on Turkey. In the 1930s the Turks
attempted to purify their language by eliminating words of
foreign, especially Persian and Arabic, origin and to simplify
the literary style of the language, making it more similar
to colloquial Turkish.
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