Turkmen is a Turkic language of the Oghuz branch spoken by the Turkmens of Central Asia. It has an estimated 4.7 million native speakers in Turkmenistan, plus a further 359,000 speakers in northeastern Iran and 1.2 million people in northwestern Afghanistan, where it has no official status.
Facts
ISO 639-3 Code Speaker Count2023 estimate, first-language (L1) speakers; the infobox also gives a second-language total of 1 million (2021) and a combined total of 7.8 million (2021-2023), not captured here. RegionTurkmenistan, Russia, Iran, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan 1 Classification
Official Status Connections
Written In
Turkmen is standardly written in the Latin alphabet (official since the 1990s).
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Turkmen Language
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Turkmen is a Turkic language of the Oghuz branch spoken by the Turkmens of Central Asia. It has an estimated 4.7 million native speakers in Turkmenistan (where it is the official language), plus a further 359,000 speakers in northeastern Iran and 1.2 million people in northwestern Afghanistan, where it has no official status. Turkmen is also spoken to lesser varying degrees in Turkmen communities of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan and by diaspora communities, primarily in Turkey and Russia.
Infobox, ISO 639-3
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Infobox, Speakers
L1: 6.8 million (2023)
Infobox, Native to
Turkmenistan, Russia, Iran, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan
Official status, Turkmen entity page
It has an estimated 4.7 million native speakers in Turkmenistan, plus a further 359,000 speakers in northeastern Iran and 1.2 million people in northwestern Afghanistan, where it has no official status.
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