Turkish as spoken in Turkey soetimes called Osmanlı belongs to the great family of Turco-Tatar languages which stretches slantwise across Eurasia, as far as the basin of the Lena where yakut, a Turkish language, is spoken on the shores of the Arctic Ocean. It is the westen and southernmost repsentative pf the Turkish Language, its nearest neighbour in the same family being Azeri which in spoken Azebaijan. A relationship between the Turco-Tartar family of the of languages and other Altaic languages, and even with other language groups with a similar similar structur, (Finno-Ugrian languages such as Finnish and Hungarian), may exist but has not yet been universally admitted.