Merhaba!
say it: “MER-hah-bah”
Turkish
in its own words: Türkçe
- Speakers
- 85 million (estimate)
- Family
- Turkic
- Vitality
- Safe
- Where it is spoken
- Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Georgia, Greece, Iraq, Islamic Republic of Iran, The Republic of North Macedonia, Syrian Arab Republic, Türkiye
- Script
- Latin
- Official language
- Cyprus, Türkiye
Fun fact
Turkish is agglutinative: grammatical meanings are expressed by chains of suffixes, so a single word can correspond to a whole English sentence.