Turkmen language

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The Turkmen language is a Turkic language spoken primarily in Turkmenistan and surrounding regions, closely related to Turkish and other Oghuz languages.


Statements (57)
Predicate Object
instanceOf Oghuz language
Turkic language
natural language
subject–object–verb language
belongsTo Oghuz group of Turkic languages
closelyRelatedTo Azerbaijani language
Gagauz language
Turkish language
countryOrRegion Afghanistan
Iran
Iraq
Pakistan
Russia
Syria
Tajikistan
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
glottocode turk1304
hasCase ablative case
accusative case
dative case
equative case
genitive case
instrumental case
locative case
nominative case
hasDialect Ersari dialect
Göklen dialect
Nohurli dialect
Salyr dialect
Saryk dialect
Teke dialect
Yomut dialect
hasFeature agglutinative morphology
lack of grammatical gender
rich case system
vowel harmony
ISO639-1Code tk
ISO639-2Code tuk
ISO639-3Code tuk
languageFamily Turkic languages
lexicalInfluenceFrom Arabic language
Persian language
Russian language
nativeName Türkmen dili
Türkmençe
officialLanguageOf Turkmenistan
previousOfficialScript Arabic script
Cyrillic alphabet
primaryScriptInTurkmenistan Latin alphabet
regulator Institute of Language and Literature of the Academy of Sciences of Turkmenistan
standardFormBasedOn Teke dialect
subfamily Oghuz branch
writingSystem Arabic script
Cyrillic alphabet
Latin alphabet


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