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What Language Do They Speak in Türkiye?
The official language of Türkiye is Turkish. In total about 30 living languages are spoken there, the most common being Turkish (93%), English (17%) and Northern Kurdish (12%).
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Official languages of Türkiye
Most spoken languages in Türkiye
Turkish Official
93%17%
6%
2%
1%
0.77%
0.74%
0.56%
Balkan Gagauz Turkish
0.46%Share of the population who speak the language (first or second language).
All languages of Türkiye (30)
| Language | Speakers here | Family | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turkish | 78,231,135 · 93% | Turkic | Official |
| English | 14,300,315 · 17% | Indo-European | Safe |
| Northern Kurdish | 10,000,000 · 12% | Indo-European | Threatened |
| Kurdish | 4,626,572 · 6% | Indo-European | — |
| Levantine Arabic | 4,374,214 · 5% | Afro-Asiatic | Safe |
| Iranian Persian | 2,000,000 · 2% | Indo-European | Safe |
| Dimli | 1,600,000 · 2% | Indo-European | Threatened |
| Zaza | 1,177,672 · 1% | — | — |
| Kabardian | 647,720 · 0.77% | Abkhaz-Adyge | Threatened |
| Azerbaijani | 622,484 · 0.74% | Turkic | — |
| Arabic | 471,069 · 0.56% | Afro-Asiatic | — |
| Balkan Gagauz Turkish | 386,949 · 0.46% | Turkic | Vulnerable |
| Bulgarian | 353,301 · 0.42% | Indo-European | Safe |
| Adyghe | 328,066 · 0.39% | Abkhaz-Adyge | Threatened |
| Kirmanjki | 159,827 · 0.19% | Indo-European | Safe |
| Kara-Kalpak | 84,119 · 0.1% | Turkic | Safe |
| Armenian | 47,106 · 0.06% | Indo-European | Safe |
| Georgian | 47,106 · 0.06% | Kartvelian | Safe |
| Serbian | 23,553 · 0.03% | — | — |
| Laz | 21,029 · 0.03% | Kartvelian | Threatened |
| Albanian | 17,665 · 0.02% | Indo-European | — |
| Abaza | 12,617 · 0.02% | Abkhaz-Adyge | Threatened |
| Pontic | 5,131 · 0.01% | Indo-European | Safe |
| Modern Greek (1453-) | 4,037 · 0% | Indo-European | Safe |
| Abkhazian | 4,037 · 0% | Abkhaz-Adyge | Threatened |
| Turoyo | 3,028 · 0% | Afro-Asiatic | Threatened |
| Uzbek | 2,018 · 0% | Turkic | — |
| Kirghiz | 1,177 · 0% | Turkic | Safe |
| Kazakh | 588 · 0% | Turkic | Safe |
| Hértevin | 4 | Afro-Asiatic | Moribund |
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Frequently asked questions
What language do they speak in Türkiye?
The official language of Türkiye is Turkish. In total about 30 living languages are spoken there, the most common being Turkish (93%), English (17%) and Northern Kurdish (12%).
What is the official language of Türkiye?
Turkish.
Is English spoken in Türkiye?
About 17% of people in Türkiye speak English (14 million).
How many languages are spoken in Türkiye?
About 30 living languages — #58 in the world for linguistic diversity. 9 of them are endangered.
Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT).