Turkmen
Türkmençe, türkmen dili,
Түркменче, түркмен дили,
تۆرکمن ديلی ,تۆرکمنچه‎
Native taeTurkmenistan, Roushie, Iraq, Iran, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan
EthnicityTurkmens
Native speakers
6.7 million (2009–2015)e21
Turkic
  • Common Turkic
    • Oghuz
      • Eastern Oghuz
        • Turkmen
Latin (Turkmen alphabet), Cyrillic, Arabic
Turkmen Braille
Offeecial status
Offeecial leid in
 Turkmenistan
Leid codes
ISO 639-1tk
ISO 639-2tuk
ISO 639-3tuk
Glottologturk1304[1]
Linguaspherepairt o 44-AAB-a
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Turkmen (Latin script: türkmençe, türkmen tili, Cyrillic: түркменче, түркмен дили, Perso-Arabic: تورکمن ﺗﻴﻠی ,تورکمنچه; an aa Trukhmen) is the name o the naitional leid o Turkmenistan. It is spoken bi approximately 3,000,000 fowk in Turkmenistan, an bi an additional approximately 380,000 in northwastren Afghanistan an 500,000 in northeastren Iran.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Turkmen". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  2. ↑ Hendrik Boeschoten. 1998. "The Speakers of Turkic Languages," The Turkic Languages (Routledge, pp. 1-15
    The group kent as "Iraqi Turkmen" are actually speakers o Sooth Azeri an no aw tribes that are called "Turkmen" in northeastren Iran are speakers o Turkmen; mony are speakers o Khorasani Turkic.
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