Turkic family
Turkish
1928 CE – today Living
Turkish (1928 CE – today) is a living Turkic language. Lineage: Proto-Turkic → Old Turkic → Old Oghuz → Old Anatolian Turkish → Ottoman Turkish → Turkish.
See Turkish on the interactive map- Speakers
- 88M (88,000,000)
- ISO 639-3
- tur
- Glottocode
- nucl1301
Member of the Oghuz branch. Modern Turkish dates from the 1928 alphabet reform and the language purism of the Turkish Language Association (1932).
Lineage
- Proto-Turkicc. 200 BCE – 500 CE
- Old Turkic550 CE – 900 CE
- Old Oghuzc. 800 CE – 1200 CE
- Old Anatolian Turkishc. 1200 CE – 1500 CE
- Ottoman Turkish1500 CE – 1928 CE
- Turkish1928 CE – today