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Turkmen language

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{{language |name=Turkmen |nativename={{lang|tk|Türkmen dili}} |familycolor=Altaic |states=Turkmenistan, Iran, Afghanistan, Turkey (Asia) |speakers=ca. 6 million |fam1=Altaic languages Altaic ''(disputed)'' |fam2=Turkic languages Turkic |fam3=Southern Turkic |nation=Turkmenistan |iso1=tk|iso2=tuk|iso3=tuk}} '''Turkmen''' (Latin: 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 3,000,000 people in other countries, including Iran (2,000,000), Afghanistan (500,000), and Turkey (1,000). Up to 50% of speakers in Turkmenistan also claim a good knowledge of Russian language Russian. Turkmen is in the Turkic language Turkic family; sometimes grouped in the larger, but disputed Altaic languages Altaic Language families and languages language family. It is a southern Turkic language, in the Turkmenian group, closely related to Crimean Tatar language Crimean Tatar and Salar language Salar, and less closely related to Turkish language Turkish and Azerbaijani language Azerbaijani. Turkmen was formerly written using the Cyrillic alphabet or the Arabic alphabet; but in recent years, President Saparmurat Niyazov decreed that Turkmen is henceforth to be written in a specially modified version of the Latin alphabet (see Turkmen alphabet). In 2002, the days of the week and the months were also Renaming of Turkmen months and days of week renamed, according to the ideology of Ruhnama.

External links
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- Turkmen - English Dictionary
- Turkmen - English Dictionary
- Turkmen entry in the Ethnologue
- Learn turkmen language on Tmchat Forums {{lang-stub}} Category:Turkic languages Category:Languages of Turkmenistan am:ቱርክመንኛ ast:Turcomanu az:TürkmÉ™n dili br:Turkmeneg bg:ТуркменÑ?ки език ca:Turcman de:Turkmenische Sprache es:Idioma turcomano fr:Turkmène ko:투르í?¬ë©˜ì–´ id:Bahasa Turkmen ms:Bahasa Turkmen nl:Turkmeens ja:トルクメン語 no:Turkmensk sprÃ¥k pl:JÄ™zyk turkmeÅ„ski pt:Língua turcomena fi:Turkmeenin kieli sv:Turkmeniska th:ภาษาเติร์à¸?เมน tr:Türkmence tk:Türkmen dili zh:土库曼语

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