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ISO 639-3 · tuktuk
Turkic family
Turkmen
Türkmen
Turkmen is a language of the Oghuz branch (Turkic), spoken in Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Iran and Tajikistan and 2 more countries. Wikidata counts 16 m first-language speakers (2007). Wikidata describes it as “Oghuz Turkic language of Central Asia”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
tuk- ISO 639-1
tk- Glottocode
turk1304- Family
- Turkic
- EGIDS
- 1 National
- UNESCO
- Safe
- Centre point
- 39.00, 59.00
- Wikipedia
- 125 language editions
16 mfirst-language speakers
—second-language speakers
6countries
5scripts
3levels in the tree
1EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Turkmen · Türkmen |
|---|---|
| Also called | Turkmen language |
| L1 speakers | 16,000,000 (2007) |
| All speakers | 6,975,120 |
| Written in | Latin script, Cyrillic, Turkmen alphabet, Russian Braille, Perso-Arabic script |
| Official in | Turkmenistan, Afghanistan |
Vitality
EGIDS 1 National1
Institutional. Used in government, education and media — EGIDS 0 to 4.
Other languages at this levelUNESCO: Safe
Languages at this levelfamily tree
From Turkic to Turkmen
The branches above Turkmen, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
