Turkish Language Jobs

 

Spoken by: native language of 77 million
Spoken worldwide: 83 million
Official language of: the Republic of Turkey and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
Trade: The Turkish economy will be the second fastest growing economy in the world by 2018 and will out-strip those of Italy and Spain in the next decade. Turkey with its large, young and well-educated population is already a member of the EU Customs Union and is negotiating for full EU membership.
Interesting facts: Turks introduced coffee to Europe; Julius Caesar proclaimed his celebrated words, “Veni, Vidi, Vici (I came, I saw, I conquered)” in Turkey when he defeated the Pontus, a formidable kingdom in the Black Sea region of Turkey.

Turkish is most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. During the Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Turkish language was influenced mainly by Arabic and Persian. The primary writing system was based on Arabic and Persian script. Due to the difficulty of learning the language only about 10% of the Ottoman Turkish population were literate.

However, in 1928 modern Turkey’s greatest hero Mustafa Kemal Atatürk had changed many things about the Turkish language. He changed the writing system to a Turkish variant of the Latin alphabet (without the letters Q, W or X, and added the letters Ö from Swedish, Ç from Albanian, Ş from Romanian, and Ü from German; and also added the letters Ğ, I, and İ to represent certain sounds which weren’t present in any other Latin-based languages at the time), and replaced many old Turkish words with new loanwords.

The change of the writing system heavily benefited Turkey’s youth, and during the 1930s, the literacy rate shot up to 70%. Today, the overall literacy rate for both males and females is approximately 87%.

Please see below for our list of jobs