World Translation Center

World Translation Center delivers professional Turkish translation services for English to Turkish and Turkish to English. We can also translate Turkish to and from over 150 other languages, including all the principal languages of Europe, Asia, South America, the Middle East and a variety of African languages, at economical prices.

Our Turkish specialists have the ability to provide translation for virtually any project you might have, including marketing materials, technical, financial, legal and medical documents, websites and software. Our knowledgeable project managers will match your project with a translator team most appropriate for the area of expertise considered necessary. Each individual linguist deals solely in his or her own mother tongue and within his or her area of expertise insuring not only top quality translation, but proper localization as well. After each document is translated, it will be edited and proofread by a second professional translator to assure highest possible quality.

We also furnish transcription, video recording and subtitling services. If you need to have an existing video dubbed, a commercial narrated or a telephone system recorded, our native Turkish speakers are available to provide high quality voiceover services.

We pride ourselves in supplying high quality cost-effective services, whether your project is small or large, simple or highly complex.

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Turkish Information

Turkish is spoken in Turkey and Cyprus. Smaller Turkish groups exist in neighboring countries like Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo, Albania. It is also spoken by immigrants in Western Europe, particularly in Germany.

Language Facts

Turkish is spoken worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Cyprus, with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo, Albania and other parts of Eastern Europe. Turkish is also spoken by 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 favor of native variants and coinages from Turkic roots.

The distinctive characteristics of Turkish are vowel harmony and extensive agglutination. This means that it frequently uses affixes, and suffices, or endings. One word can have many affixes and these are used to create new words. The extensive use of affixes can make words very, very long.

The basic word order of Turkish is Subject Object Verb; it also does not have noun classes or grammatical gender. Turkish has a T-V distinction (t = tu and v = vos of Latin): second-person plural forms can be used for individuals as a sign of respect.

Turkish is established as the official standard language of Turkey. However, dialectal variation persists.

Writing

Turkish uses the Latin alphabet.

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