Turkish (Türkçe)

Turkish is a Turkic language with about 70 million speakers in
Turkey and in 35 other countries, including Australia, Austria,
Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, El Salvador,
Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Honduras, Iran, Iraq
and Israel.

Until 1928, Turkish was written with a version of the Perso-Arabic
script known as the Ottoman Turkish script. In 1928,
as part of his efforts to modernise Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
issued a decree replacing the Arabic script with a version of the
Latin alphabet, which has been used ever since.
Nowadays, only scholars and those who learnt to read before 1928 can
read Turkish written in the Arabic script.

Ottoman Turkish script

Numerals

Sample text

Translation

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They
are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another
in a spirit of brotherhood.
(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)