Turkish for Travelers

You can learn to speak and understand a number of basic words and phrases in Turkish by using the Foreign Languages for Travelers pages. This knowledge can be extremely useful when traveling in any of the countries listed below. Or you can use these pages to brush up on or start learning any of a number of foreign languages.


Turkish is officially spoken in:
Turkey and Cyprus.
There are two letters in Turkish which are not available in the standard latin fonts, so they will be represented as follows: ,s: an s with a tail (sounds like sh), and -g: a g with a bar on top (soft g, no sound).