Turkish language is a member of Ural-Altaic family. This family has two sub family which are Ural and Altaic. Altaic sub family members are Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Koreanic, Japonic languages. You can see Turkic languages and number of speakers in the bar chart.
- Turkish is spoken in Turkey and the most spoken language in Turkic languages with 70,000,000 speakers.
- Turkish is the 17th the most spoken language in world.[1](25 August 2015)
- Turkish is the 11th the most used language in Internet. 1,8% of webpages all over the world is in Turkish language.[2](30 May 2016)
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| Content languages for websites as of 30 May 2016 |
- The fastest groving content language on the web is Russian. Turkish stands in 3rd place after Persian.[2](14 March 2016)
- Turkish is the 11th in books published per country per year.
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 China | 2013 | 440,000 | New titles and re-editions | [2] |
 United States | 2013 | 304,912 | New titles and re-editions | [2] |
 United Kingdom | 2011 | 184,000 | New and revised | [3] |
 Russian Federation | 2013 | 101,981 | 120,512 total | [4] |
 India | 2013 | 90,000 | Total; revised editions not included; 25% in Hindi, 20% in English, and the rest in other Indian languages | [5] |
 Japan | 2013 | 82,589 | New | [6] |
 Germany | 2011 | 82,048 | New | [3] |
 Italy | 2013 | 61,966 | New | [7] |
 South Korea | 2014 | 47,589 | New | [8] |
 Spain | 2011 | 44,000 | 74,244 total | [3][9] |
 Turkey | 2011 | 43,100 | Total | [10] |
 France | 2011 | 41,902 | New | [3] |
- Turkey is the 20th in scientific publications.[3](1996-2014)
| Country | Documents | Citable documents | Citations | Self-Citations | Citations per Document | H index |
|---|
| 1 |  | United States |
8.626.193
|
7.876.234
|
177.434.935
|
83.777.658
|
23,36
|
1.648
|
| 2 |  | China |
3.617.355
|
3.569.652
|
19.110.353
|
10.462.121
|
7,44
|
495
|
| 3 |  | United Kingdom |
2.397.817
|
2.103.145
|
44.011.201
|
10.321.539
|
21,03
|
1.015
|
| 4 |  | Germany |
2.176.860
|
2.045.433
|
35.721.869
|
9.141.181
|
18,50
|
887
|
| 5 |  | Japan |
2.074.872
|
2.008.410
|
27.040.067
|
7.619.559
|
13,79
|
745
|
| 6 |  | France |
1.555.629
|
1.468.286
|
24.700.140
|
5.516.943
|
17,95
|
811
|
| 7 |  | Canada |
1.227.380
|
1.134.588
|
22.152.666
|
4.136.384
|
21,40
|
794
|
| 8 |  | Italy |
1.200.448
|
1.117.013
|
18.019.464
|
4.186.908
|
17,52
|
713
|
| 9 |  | India |
998.544
|
944.632
|
6.989.150
|
2.409.025
|
9,61
|
383
|
| 10 |  | Spain |
952.099
|
884.670
|
12.628.097
|
3.068.362
|
16,14
|
591
|
| 11 |  | Australia |
890.458
|
809.027
|
13.772.961
|
2.947.945
|
19,49
|
644
|
| 12 |  | South Korea |
739.229
|
719.338
|
7.063.429
|
1.528.443
|
12,38
|
424
|
| 13 |  | Russian Federation |
701.029
|
689.095
|
4.289.618
|
1.273.073
|
6,50
|
390
|
| 14 |  | Netherlands |
681.804
|
628.678
|
14.278.721
|
2.321.446
|
24,56
|
694
|
| 15 |  | Brazil |
598.234
|
573.988
|
5.036.027
|
1.699.530
|
11,73
|
379
|
| 16 |  | Switzerland |
493.857
|
460.824
|
10.872.269
|
1.458.098
|
26,10
|
686
|
| 17 |  | Taiwan |
491.560
|
477.442
|
4.790.230
|
1.075.153
|
12,17
|
331
|
| 18 |  | Sweden |
460.607
|
433.674
|
9.417.604
|
1.448.940
|
23,21
|
614
|
| 19 |  | Poland |
431.016
|
418.917
|
3.491.958
|
901.545
|
9,57
|
371
|
| 20 |  | Turkey |
390.874
|
368.197
|
2.938.841
|
737.423
|
9,79
|
266
|
