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Turkmen leid

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Turkmen
Türkmençe, türkmen dili,
Түркменче, түркмен дили,
تۆرکمن ديلی ,تۆرکمنچه
Native taeTurkmenistan, Roushie, Iraq, Iran, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan
EthnicityTurkmens
Native speakers
6.7 million (2009–2015)e21
Turkic
Latin (Turkmen alphabet), Cyrillic, Arabic
Turkmen Braille
Offeecial status
Offeecial leid in
 Turkmenistan
Leid codes
ISO 639-1tk
ISO 639-2tuk
ISO 639-3tuk
Glottologturk1304[1]
Linguaspherepairt o 44-AAB-a
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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

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  1. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Turkmen". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  2. 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.