Merhaba
'Hello' in Turkish
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Turkish
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Turkish, a Turkic language, is spoken by about 80 million native speakers, primarily in Turkey and parts of Cyprus, Bulgaria, and Greece. It uses the Latin alphabet, adopted in 1928, with unique characters like "ç," "ğ," "ı," "ö," "ş," and "ü." Known for its vowel harmony and agglutinative grammar, Turkish features suffixes to indicate case, tense, and other grammatical functions, with no grammatical gender. Its vocabulary stems from Turkic roots, with significant loanwords from Arabic, Persian, French, and English due to historical and cultural interactions. As Turkey’s official language and an official language in Cyprus, Turkish is central to the region’s culture, media, and literature.