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Turkmen

Türkmençe / تۆرکمن · Arab/Latn script, written right to left. Spoken in Golestan and North Khorasan; Latin script in Turkmenistan, Arabic-based in Iran.

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Turkmen

Türkmençe / تۆرکمن · Arab/Latn script, written right to left. Spoken in Golestan and North Khorasan; Latin script in Turkmenistan, Arabic-based in Iran.

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Academy126 courses, 126 open for enrolmentCivic3 campaigns, 5 programmesHeritage116 days to keep, 40 chronology entriesNews88 approved sources, no confirmed events yetChaptersforming. None is recognised yet
ScriptArab/Latnright to lefton request

Record

tk
Türkmençe / تۆرکمنTurkmen · Arab/Latn
Code
tk
Family
Turkic, Oghuz
Where
Golestan and North Khorasan; Latin script in Turkmenistan, Arabic-based in Iran
Phase
on request
Coverage
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Codes are BCP 47 language and script subtags.

Courses that teach it

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Writing

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Its own names

Türkmençe
left to right

Scripts

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  • Turkmen is written in Latin in Turkmenistan and in the Arabic-based script in Iran.
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Resources

1 resource
Glottolog: Turkmenreference · Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology · checked 2026-10-23
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Linguistics

family, dialects, sounds and standing
Family
Turkic, then Common Turkic, then Oghuz, then Nuclear Oghuz, then East Oghuz
Codes
ISO 639-3 tuk · Glottolog turk1304
Dialects
Turkmen: Anauli, Cawdur, Esari, Goklen, Khasarli, Nerezim, Nokhurli, Salyr, Saryq, Teke, Yomud (11 listed in all)
Standing
Turkmen: not endangered (1 (National)) secondary
Sounds
21 consonants and 16 vowels, after Gray 1994 · the inventory verified

b d̪ ð d̠ʒ ɡ h j k l̪ m n̪ ŋ pʰ ɾ ʃ t̪ʰ t̠ʃ w x ʒ θ æː ɑ ɑː ɛ i iː œ œː ɔ ɔː u uː ɯ ɯː y yː

East Oghuz
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In law

The 2004 Constitution of Afghanistan (Article 16) makes Turkmani a third official language in areas where most people speak it.Constitute Project. Constitutions of the world, English translations.
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Speakers

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Year
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Source
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Status
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