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Turkmen (Туркмен, ISO 639-1: tk, ISO 639-Two: tuk) is the title of the national language of Turkmenistan. Turkmen is spoken by more or less 3,430,000 population witharound Turkmenistan, & by even more, an extra some 3,000,000 humans in more countries, including Iran (2,000,000), Afghanistan (500,000), and Turkey (1,000). Turkmen is in the Turkic family. Periodically sorted inside larger, however disputed Altaic language family. These are the southern Turkic language, in the Turkmenian class action, closely related to Crimean Turkish and Salar, and less closely related to Turkish and Azeri (Azerbaijani). Turkmen is written using the Cyrillic alphabet or the Arabic alphabet, although in recent years, President Saparmurat Niyazov has decreed that Turkmen was now to exist as written within the specially limited & altered version of the Roman alphabet. Source: Ethnologue, SIL code: TCK.
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Turkmen Profile Profile of the Turkmen language, from the University of California's Language Materials Project. Turkmen Language Overview grammar of the Turkmen language. Languages On-Line: Turkmen Audio files in RAM format accompanying an Indiana University course by David Tyson and Larry Clark. |
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