Turkic languages

Turkic

The Old Turkic alphabet was used between the 8th and 9th centuries in Mongolia and Siberia to write the Old Turkic language.

Turkish (Türkçe) is a Turkic language with about 70 million speakers mainly in Turkey and Cyprus. There are also Turkish speakers in Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, El Salvador, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Honduras, Iran, Iraq and Israel. (...)

The Turkish alphabet consists of Latin characters like in English. But not all the sounds are the same as their English equivalents. The Turkish alphabet is phonetic. That means that, as a general rule, one letter makes one sound.