Yayla (resort)
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Yayla is a Turkic name given to settlements or areas which are suitable for summer mountain resorts and summer highland transhumance. The term is also cognate with the related Turkic term yaylak. Sinc
Pokut Yayla, Rize, Turkey
A Yörük yayla depiction from the Taurus Mountains, 1879
A modern yayla region at Aladaglar (Anti-Taurus Mts), Mediterranean Region, Turkey
Ayder Yayla, Black Sea Region, Turkey
Turkish language
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Turkish is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, with around 90 million speakers. It is the national language of Turkey and one of two official languages of Cyprus. Significant smaller group
Yayla (resort)
…as in examples such as yazı(g), dizi(g), dolu(g), ölü(g), with the last letter dropped as yayla (opposing to yaylak or yaylag), it is only in use in Turkish and other closely related languages such as Crimean Tatar, Gagauz, Balkan Turkish and Azerbaijani. Since the antiquity, Turks used to call their…
The 9th century Irk Bitig (Book of Divination)
The Book of Dede Korkut (Dresden manuscript), dating to approximately the 14th or 15th century, is written in Old Anatolian Turkish
An advertisement by the IKEA branch in Berlin written in the German and Turkish languages.
Road sign at the European end of the Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul.