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SOME FACTS

Turkmen is the name of the national language of Turkmenistan. Turkmen 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).

Turkmen is in the Turkic family. Sometimes grouped in larger, but disputed Altaic language family. It is a southern Turkic language, in the Turkmenian group, 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 be written in a specially modified and adapted version of the Roman alphabet.

TURKMEN: a language of Turkmenistan
SIL code: TCK
ISO 639-1: tk
ISO 639-2: tuk

Population 3,430,000 in Turkmenistan (1995), 99% of the ethnic group of 3,465,000 (1995). Population total all countries 6,400,000.

Region Also spoken in Afghanistan, Germany, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Russia (Asia), Tajikistan, Turkey (Asia), USA, Uzbekistan.

Alternate names TURKOMANS, TURKMENLER, TURKMANIAN, TRUKHMEN, TRUKHMENY, TURKMANI

Dialects NOKHURLI, ANAULI, KHASARLI, NEREZIM, YOMUD, TEKE (TEKKE), GOKLEN, SALYR, SARYQ, ESARI, CAWDUR.

Classification Altaic, Turkic, Southern, Turkmenian.

Comments Some dialects differ from Teke. 50% claim a good knowledge of Russian. The so-called 'Turkmen' in Syria, and possibly Iraq and Jordan, actually speak an ancient form of Turkmen; so-called 'Turkmen' in Tibet may speak a different Turkic language. National language. Dictionary. Grammar. Cyrillic script. Radio programs. Sand desert, narrow oases. Agriculturalists: cotton; stock breeders: sheep; carpet weavers; traditionally pastoralists: sheep; Gas, oil workers. Sunni Muslim. Bible portions 1880-1982.

Also spoken in:
Afghanistan Language name TURKMEN
Population 500,000 in Afghanistan (1995).
Alternate names TURKOMAN, TRUKMEN, TURKMAN
Dialects SALOR, TEKE (TEKKE, CHAGATAI, JAGATAI), ERSARI, SARIQ, YOMUT.
Comments Sharp dialect differences. Probably mainly Ersari dialect in Afghanistan. Bilingualism in Pashtu. Refugee group in Kabul. People called 'Turkomen' in Syria are Azerbaijani speakers. Literacy rate in second language: 15% to 25%. Arabic script. Some better educated persons can read Cyrillic. Newspapers. Nomadic, cultivators, pastoralists, Persian lamb export, Persian rugs. Hanafi Sunni Muslim, occult. Bible portions 1880-1982.


Iran Language name TURKMEN
Population 2,000,000 in Iran (1997), or 3.17% of the population (1997).
Alternate names TORKOMANI
Dialects ANAULI, KHASARLI, NEREZIM, NOKHURLI (NOHUR), CHAVDUR, ESARI (ESARY), GOKLEN (GOKLAN), SALYR, SARYQ, TEKE (TEKKE), YOMUD (YOMUT), TRUKMEN.
Comments Bilingualism in Farsi. Not a literary language in Iran. Many are semi-nomadic. Ethnic groups: Yomut, Goklan. They could read Arabic script. Radio programs. Agriculturalists: cotton, wheat, barley; cattle. Hanafi Sunni and Shi'a Muslim; Goklan and Yomut: Shi'a Muslim. Bible portions 1880-1982.


Turkey (Asia) Language name TURKMEN
Population 925 in Turkey (1982).
Alternate names TRUKHMEN
Comments Refugees from Afghanistan; now Turkish citizens. Sunni Muslim. Bible portions 1880-1982.