Turkish language speakers are located predominantly in Turkey, with smaller groups in Cyprus, Bulgaria, and other parts of Eastern Europe. Turkish is also spoken by several million immigrants in Western Europe, particularly in Germany.
The roots of the language can be traced to Central Asia, with the first written records dating back nearly 1,200 years. To the west, the influence of Ottoman Turkish—the immediate precursor of today’s Turkish—spread as the Ottoman Empire expanded. In 1928, as one of Atatürk’s Reforms in the early years of the Republic of Turkey, the Ottoman script was replaced with a phonetic variant of the Latin alphabet. Concurrently, the newly-founded Turkish Language Association initiated a drive to reform the language by removing Persian and Arabic loanwords in favour of native variants and coinages from Turkic roots.
The distinctive characteristics of Turkish are vowel harmony and extensive agglutination. The basic word order of Turkish is Subject Object Verb. Turkish has a T-V distinction: second-person plural forms can be used for individuals as a sign of respect. Turkish also has no noun classes or grammatical gender.
Turkish Translation Services
Corporate Translations is a UK professional translation agency based in Essex near London with expert knowledge and experience in Turkish language translation for businesses across the UK, Turkey and Cyprus. Our translation expertise includes business, legal, financial, technical, medical, media and website copy from Turkish to English or English to Turkish. We employ fully trained professional Turkish translators with expertise in many industries to meet your needs and always translate into their native mother-tongue for accuracy and the use of the correct terminology.
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Turkish Typesetting Services
We provide typesetting services cover brochures, business cards, stationery, packaging labels and export documentation. For more information on our Typesetting and DTP services please contact us.
Below are a selection of some of the main languages we provide translation services for:
