The Turkish-Speaking World

The Turkish language is primarily spoken in Turkey, but has many communities worldwide of speakers who elegantly and stubbornly strive to maintain the roots of their origins. Here is a complete list of countries and communities around the world where you could hear the sounds and linguistic patterns of the Turkish language:

Country	Languages (%)
Austria	German (official nationwide) 88.6%, Turkish 2.3%, Serbian 2.2%, Croatian (official in Burgenland) 1.6%, other (includes Slovene, official in Carinthia, and Hungarian, official in Burgenland) 5.3% (2001 census)
Bulgaria	Bulgarian 84.5%, Turkish 9.6%, Roma 4.1%, other and unspecified 1.8% (2001 census)
Cyprus	Greek, Turkish, English
Iran	Persian and Persian dialects 58%, Turkic and Turkic dialects 26%, Kurdish 9%, Luri 2%, Balochi 1%, Arabic 1%, Turkish 1%, other 2%
Iraq	Arabic, Kurdish (official in Kurdish regions), Turkoman (a Turkish dialect), Assyrian (Neo-Aramaic), Armenian
Kosovo	Albanian (official), Serbian (official), Bosnian, Turkish, Roma
Macedonia	Macedonian 66.5%, Albanian 25.1%, Turkish 3.5%, Roma 1.9%, Serbian 1.2%, other 1.8% (2002 census)
Moldova	Moldovan (official, virtually the same as the Romanian language), Russian, Gagauz (a Turkish dialect)
Turkey	Turkish (official), Kurdish, other minority languages

Source: CIA – The World Factbook