Modern Turkish is the official language of Turkey and is spoken by millions of people worldwide. It belongs to the Turkic language family and has undergone significant changes since the early 20th century, particularly during the language reform initiated by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. This reform aimed to simplify the language and replace many Arabic and Persian loanwords with Turkish equivalents. The language uses the Latin alphabet, which was adopted in 1928, replacing the Arabic script. Modern Turkish is characterized by its vowel harmony and agglutinative structure, allowing for the creation of complex words through the addition of various suffixes.