Turkmen language
Oghuz Turkic language of Central Asia
Turkmen (türkmençe, türkmen dili, Cyrillic: түркменче, түркмен дили, Persian: تورکمن ﺗﻴﻠی, تورکمنچه) is the national language of Turkmenistan. It is spoken by about 7,000,000 people in Turkmenistan and by an about 380,000 more people in Northwestern Afghanistan and 500,000 in Northeastern Iran.
Turkmen | |
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Türkmençe, Türkmen dili, Түркменче, Түркмен дили, تورکمن ﺗﻴلی, تورکمنچه | |
Native to | Turkmenistan, Iran, Afghanistan, Stavropol krai (Russia) |
Native speakers | (ca. 4 million cited 1998)[1] |
Turkic
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Official status | |
Official language in | Turkmenistan |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-1 | tk |
ISO 639-2 | tuk |
ISO 639-3 | tuk |
Linguasphere | part of 44-AAB-a |
Literature
The leading Turkmen poet is Magtymguly Pyragy, who wrote in the 1700's.
References
Turkmen edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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