Turkish
Turkish is documented on Dialect Atlas across 4 dialects, including Anatolian Turkish, Balkan Turkish, Cypriot Turkish.
Dialects of Turkish
- Anatolian TurkishA broad cluster of regional dialects across central and eastern Anatolia. Internally varied; many features sit at the boundary with Azerbaijani and other Oghuz Turkic varieties.
- Balkan TurkishRumeliceThe Turkish varieties of the Balkans, surviving from Ottoman-era settlement. Spoken across pockets of Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Kosovo, and northern Greece.
- Cypriot TurkishKıbrıs TürkçesiThe Turkish of the northern half of Cyprus. Preserves Anatolian features lost in standard Turkish and shows long contact with Cypriot Greek.
- Istanbul TurkishStandard Turkish · İstanbul TürkçesiThe Istanbul-area standard of Turkish. The basis of the modern written language and of broadcast Turkish.
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