Turkish
Spoken language
Turkish is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, with around 90 to 100 million speakers. It is the national language of Turkey and Northern Cyprus. Wikipedia
Language families: Turkic languages, Altaic languages, and Oghuz languages
Sea north: the Black Sea
Dialects: Cypriot Turkish; Iraqi Turkmen; Karamanli Turkish; Meskhetian Turkish; Rumelian Turkish; Syrian Turkish;
Early forms: Old Anatolian Turkish: Ottoman Turkish
Ethnicity: Turks
Official language in: Cyprus; Northern Cyprus; Turkey
Recognised minority language in: Bosnia and Herzegovina; Croatia; Greece; Iraq; Kosovo; North Macedonia; Romania