Languages Spoken
| Language | Mother tongue | Only language spoken | Second best language spoken |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abaza | 4,563 | 280 | 7,556 |
| Albanian | 12,832 | 1,075 | 39,613 |
| Arabic | 365,340 | 189,134 | 167,924 |
| Armenian | 33,094 | 1,022 | 22,260 |
| Bosnian | 17,627 | 2,345 | 34,892 |
| Bulgarian | 4,088 | 350 | 46,742 |
| Bulgarian (Pomaks) | 23,138 | 2,776 | 34,234 |
| Chechen | 7,563 | 2,500 | 5,063 |
| Circassian | 58,339 | 6,409 | 48,621 |
| Croatian | 45 | 1 | 1,585 |
| Czech | 168 | 25 | 76 |
| Dutch (or Flemish) | 366 | 23 | 219 |
| English | 27,841 | 21,766 | 139,867 |
| French | 3,302 | 398 | 96,879 |
| Georgian | 34,330 | 4,042 | 44,934 |
| German | 4,901 | 790 | 35,704 |
| Greek | 48,096 | 3,203 | 78,941 |
| Italian | 2,926 | 267 | 3,861 |
| Kurdish (Kurmanji) | 2,219,502 | 1,323,690 | 429,168 |
| Judæo-Spanish | 9,981 | 283 | 3,510 |
| Laz | 26,007 | 3,943 | 55,158 |
| Persian | 948 | 72 | 2,103 |
| Polish | 110 | 20 | 377 |
| Portuguese | 52 | 5 | 3,233 |
| Romanian | 406 | 53 | 6,909 |
| Russian | 1,088 | 284 | 4,530 |
| Serbian | 6,599 | 776 | 58,802 |
| Spanish | 2,791 | 138 | 4,297 |
| Turkish | 28,289,680 | 26,925,649 | 1,387,139 |
| Zaza | 150,644 | 92,288 | 20,413 |
| Total | 31,009,934 | 28,583,607 | 2,786,610 |
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