Turkey
The official language, Turkish, is the first language spoken by 90% of the
71.1m population.
Minority languages include Kurdish, spoken by 6% of the population, although this isn't recognised as an official language. Arabic is spoken by 1.2% of the Turkish population; most of those speakers are bilingual Arabic and Turkish speakers.
Other minority languages include Circassian, spoken by more than 0.09% throughout the country, Greek, Armenian and Judezmo, a Romance language spoken by Jews.
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