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10 interesting facts about Turkish language

1. Turkish language is the major member of the Turkic language family within the Altaic language group.
2. Originated from Altai Mountains, Turkic languages are mostly spoken in Turkey, Cyprus, and in Central Asia.
3. In 1928, a Latin alphabet replaced the Ottoman Turkish alphabet.
4. The Turkish alphabet is composed of 21 consonants and 8 vowels.
5. Türkçe is spoken by around 80 million people across the world.
6. Turkish has no noun classes or grammatical gender.
7. The third-person pronoun O may refer to "he," "she" or "it."
8. Ğ, called "soft g" is a silent letter used to lengthen preceding vowel.
9. Turkish agglutinates suffixes according to the vowel harmony.
10. Kedi means "cat".

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