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Turkmen: Official language of Turkmenistan.

Number of Turkmen Speakers: 3.1 million

Turkmen Speakers: In Turkmenistan, Iran (722,000), Afghanistan (380,000), Uzbekistan, Turkey, Pakistan, Germany, and the United States.

Language Classification: Southern Turkic (or Oghuz) group, including Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar, and Turkish.

Turkmen Dialects: Seven.

Turkmen Alphabet: Modified Cyrillic since 1940. Previous scripts were in Arabic. Turkmen language became the national language in 1990. Independence gained  in 1991.

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Turkmen Orthography: Nine sets of short and long vowels, 23 consonants, and five nominal cases.

Turkmen Language History: Turkic languages existed in the 5th and 6th centuries.

Turkmen Language Enriched by: Arabic, Persian, and modern Russian.

Unique Features of Turkmen: More than 70 nationalities exist in Turkmenistan.

For more linguistic affiliation, language variation, orthography, linguistic sketch, and history of Turkmen language UCLA Language Materials Project has a good linguistics and interlingual background information on Turkmen.

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