30 Mayıs 2016 Pazartesi

Turkish Language

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)
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.
CountryYearTitlesNotesReferences
 China2013440,000New titles and re-editions[2]
 United States2013304,912New titles and re-editions[2]
 United Kingdom2011184,000New and revised[3]
 Russian Federation2013101,981120,512 total[4]
 India201390,000Total; revised editions not included; 25% in Hindi, 20% in English, and the rest in other Indian languages[5]
 Japan201382,589New[6]
 Germany201182,048New[3]
 Italy201361,966New[7]
 South Korea201447,589New[8]
 Spain201144,00074,244 total[3][9]
 Turkey201143,100Total[10]
 France201141,902New[3]
  • Turkey is the 20th in scientific publications.[3](1996-2014)
CountryDocumentsCitable documentsCitationsSelf-CitationsCitations per DocumentH index
1USUnited States
8.626.193
7.876.234
177.434.935
83.777.658
23,36
1.648
2CNChina
3.617.355
3.569.652
19.110.353
10.462.121
7,44
495
3GBUnited Kingdom
2.397.817
2.103.145
44.011.201
10.321.539
21,03
1.015
4DEGermany
2.176.860
2.045.433
35.721.869
9.141.181
18,50
887
5JPJapan
2.074.872
2.008.410
27.040.067
7.619.559
13,79
745
6FRFrance
1.555.629
1.468.286
24.700.140
5.516.943
17,95
811
7CACanada
1.227.380
1.134.588
22.152.666
4.136.384
21,40
794
8ITItaly
1.200.448
1.117.013
18.019.464
4.186.908
17,52
713
9INIndia
998.544
944.632
6.989.150
2.409.025
9,61
383
10ESSpain
952.099
884.670
12.628.097
3.068.362
16,14
591
11AUAustralia
890.458
809.027
13.772.961
2.947.945
19,49
644
12KRSouth Korea
739.229
719.338
7.063.429
1.528.443
12,38
424
13RURussian Federation
701.029
689.095
4.289.618
1.273.073
6,50
390
14NLNetherlands
681.804
628.678
14.278.721
2.321.446
24,56
694
15BRBrazil
598.234
573.988
5.036.027
1.699.530
11,73
379
16CHSwitzerland
493.857
460.824
10.872.269
1.458.098
26,10
686
17TWTaiwan
491.560
477.442
4.790.230
1.075.153
12,17
331
18SESweden
460.607
433.674
9.417.604
1.448.940
23,21
614
19PLPoland
431.016
418.917
3.491.958
901.545
9,57
371
20TRTurkey
390.874
368.197
2.938.841
737.423
9,79
266