Turkmen leid
Appearance
| Turkmen | |
|---|---|
| Türkmençe, türkmen dili, Түркменче, түркмен дили, تۆرکمن ديلی ,تۆرکمنچه | |
| Native tae | Turkmenistan, Roushie, Iraq, Iran, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan |
| Ethnicity | Turkmens |
Native speakers | 6.7 million (2009–2015)e21 |
Turkic
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| Latin (Turkmen alphabet), Cyrillic, Arabic Turkmen Braille | |
| Offeecial status | |
Offeecial leid in | |
| Leid codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | tk |
| ISO 639-2 | tuk |
| ISO 639-3 | tuk |
| Glottolog | turk1304[1] |
| Linguasphere | pairt o 44-AAB-a |
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
[eedit | edit soorce]- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Turkmen". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ 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.