Turkish Language

Most widely spoken Turkic language, with about 85 million native speakers; official in Turkey and Cyprus, written in Latin script since 1928.

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Turkish had about 85 million first-language and 6.1 million second-language speakers (2006–2021), the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages.
In 1928 the Ottoman Turkish alphabet was replaced with the Latin script-based Turkish alphabet.
It is the official language of Turkey and one of the official languages of Cyprus.