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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 6 January 2025. Americans of Turkish birth or descent Ethnic group Turkish Americans Türk Amerikalılar The 27th Annual Turkish Day Parade (2008) in New York Total population 252,256 [a] 2023 American Community Survey 350,000-500,000 Turkish Coalition of America Regions with significant populations New ...
2 languages. Ελληνικά ... about 5 percent went to North America. After the 1974 Turkish Invasion of Cyprus 51,500 Turkish and Greek Cypriots left as ...
The official languages of the Republic of Cyprus are Greek and Turkish. [2]: art. 3, § 1 The everyday spoken language of Greek Cypriots is Cypriot Greek, and that of Turkish Cypriots is Cypriot Turkish.
The Turkish language was introduced to Cyprus with the Ottoman conquest in 1571 and became the politically dominant, prestigious language, of the administration. [81] In the post-Ottoman period, Cypriot Turkish was relatively isolated from standard Turkish and had strong influences by the Cypriot Greek dialect.
Turkish Cypriot migration to Australia began in the late 1940s; [13] they were the only Muslims acceptable under the White Australia Policy. [14] Prior to 1940, the Australian Census recorded only three settlers from Cyprus that spoke Turkish as their primary language, although many Turkish Cypriot arrivals spoke Greek as their first
The Turkic peoples are a collection of diverse ethnic groups of West, Central, East, and North Asia as well as parts of Europe, who speak Turkic languages. [37] [38]According to historians and linguists, the Proto-Turkic language originated in Central-East Asia, [39] potentially in Altai-Sayan region, Mongolia or Tuva.
Turkish dialects map: Main subgroups. There is considerable dialectal variation in Turkish.. Turkish is a southern Oghuz language belonging to the Turkic languages.Turkish is natively and historically spoken by the Turkish people in Turkey, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Greece (primarily in Western Thrace), Kosovo, Meskhetia, North Macedonia, Romania, Iraq, Syria and other areas of traditional settlement ...
Turkish language: 2 Cypriot dialect: Turkish language: 3 Afshar dialect: Azerbaijani language: 4 Sonqori dialect: Azerbaijani language: 5 Lop dialect: Uyghur language: 6 Baraba dialect: Siberian Tatar language