| Also Known As: Turkmenler,Turkmani,Turkman,Turkomans,Trukmen,Trukhmen,Turkoman,Turkmanian,Torkomani,Trukhmeny,Turkmen
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Turkmen (Latin script: türkmen, Cyrillic: түркмен, ISO 639-1: tk, ISO 639-2: tuk) is the name of the national language of Turkmenistan. It is spoken by approximately 3,430,000 people in Turkmenistan, and by an additional approximately 6,000,000 people in other countries, including Iran (2,000,000), Afghanistan (500,000), Syria (500,000), Iraq (200,000-300,000), and Turkey (1,000,000).
Turkmen is in the Turkic family; and further grouped in the larger Altaic language family. It is a member of the southwestern Turkic language family, more specifically the East Oghuz group. This group also includes Khorasani Turkic. Turkmen is closely related to Turkish and Azerbaijani, and it is for the most part mutually intelligible.
Turkmen has vowel harmony, is agglutinative, and has no grammatical gender or irregular verbs. Word order is Subject Object Verb.
Written Turkmen today is based on the Yomud dialect. Other dialects are Nohurly, Änewli, Hasarly, Nerezim, Teke (Tekke), Gökleň, Salyr, Saryk, Ärsary and Çowdur. The Teke dialect is sometimes (especially in Afghanistan) referred to as "Chagatai", but like all Turkmen dialects it reflects only a limited influence from classical..... full article at Wikipedia |