Turkish (Türkçe)
Turkish (tr, tur) is a world language. Wikidata records about 82.2M speakers. It is written in Turkish alphabet. It is an official language in 2 countries, including Cyprus and Turkey.
Turkish is agglutinative with vowel harmony; suffixes on variables are hard to localise. Watch the dotted and dotless i (İ/i, I/ı) in casing.
Expect text translated from English into Turkish to grow by roughly 10–25%, which matters for layouts, subtitles and page counts.
Translation guides
Where Turkish is official
- Cyprus
- Turkey
Rates for Turkish translation
Turkish falls in our middle eastern & turkic band: roughly $0.09–$0.18 per word for general commercial work. These are indicative ranges, not quotes — specialised, certified and rush work costs more, and literary translation is usually priced per 1,000 words.
For context, the median salaried translator or interpreter in the US earned $60,170 in May 2025 (BLS). See salaries by state →
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