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. StatusWikipedia article on Turkmen: a currently spoken living language with an active native-speaker population; checked 2026-09-27. RegionTurkmenistan, Russia, Iran, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan 2 Classification
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Source Wikipedia: Turkmen Language
Source Wikipedia: Turkmen Language
Written In
Turkmen is standardly written in the Latin alphabet (official since the 1990s).
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Source Wikipedia: Turkmen LanguageLead sentence 1tier 2Quote, Lead sentence 1
Turkmen (türkmençe, түркменче, تۆرکمنچه, [tʏɾkˈmøntʃø] or türkmen dili, түркмен дили, تۆرکمن ديلی, [tʏɾkˈmøn dɪˈlɪ]) is a Turkic language of the Oghuz branch spoken by the Turkmens of Central Asia.
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Sources
1. Glottolog: Turkmen (Glottolog languoid turk1304)
GlottologEndangerment, AES statusQuote, Endangerment, AES status
AES status: not endangered
2. Wikipedia: Turkmen Language
Wikimedia FoundationLead section
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.
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L2: million (2021) Total: million (2021-2023)
Infobox: states
Turkmenistan, Russia, Iran, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan
Lead section
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.
In Family: Turkic, Infobox, Language family
Turkic
In Family: Oghuz, Infobox, Language family
Oghuz
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