JOURNEY OF TURKISH AROUND THE WORLD WITH STARTALK

Turkic Languages Worldwide

200 million people speak Turkic languages around the world.

Altaic Languages

Turkish is a member of the Oghuz group of languages, a subgroup of the Turkic language family, which includes such languages as Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Mongolian, Kazakh, etc..

Turkic languages are part of the larger Altaic language family, including Mongol, Korean.

About 40% of all speakers of Turkic languages are native Turkish speakers.

Spoken throughout Turkey as first or second language.

“Western Turkish” Language

Modern descendant of Ottoman Turkish Turkish, Arabic, Persian, Greek, French

vocabulary NATIVE: 60 million speakers 2nd language: 15 million speakers TOTAL: 75 million people in Turkey

speaks Turkish.

Turkish in America According to conservative estimates,

there are approximately 350,000 Americans of Turkish descent living across the United States. (Turkish American Community)

According to Census.gov there are 5.839 Turks living in Virginia.

StarTalk Program

Turkish one of the StarTalk language. STARTALK is a national program that

provides critical language education for students K-16, professional development for critical language teachers, and resources for the world language teaching and learning field.

Since 2009 StarTalk has been running a Turkish program in Fauquier County – Virginia.

2014 StarTalk has 7 Turkish programs. Two of them are for students, five of them for teachers.