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Turkmen (Туркмен, ISO 639-1: tk, ISO 639-Two: tuk) is the title of the national language of Turkmenistan. Turkmen is spoken by more or less 3,430,000 population witharound Turkmenistan, & by even more, an extra some 3,000,000 humans in more countries, including Iran (2,000,000), Afghanistan (500,000), and Turkey (1,000).

Turkmen is in the Turkic family. Periodically sorted inside larger, however disputed Altaic language family. These are the southern Turkic language, in the Turkmenian class action, closely related to Crimean Turkish and Salar, and less closely related to Turkish and Azeri (Azerbaijani).

Turkmen is written using the Cyrillic alphabet or the Arabic alphabet, although in recent years, President Saparmurat Niyazov has decreed that Turkmen was now to exist as written within the specially limited & altered version of the Roman alphabet.

Source: Ethnologue, SIL code: TCK.

Turkmen/English Dictionary
Downloadable dictionary, prepared by the Peace Corps Turkmenistan (PDF format).

Turkmen/English Dictionary
Downloadable dictionary, prepared by the Peace Corps Turkmenistan (MS Word format).

Small English - Turkmen Glossary
Prepared by the Peace Corps Turkmenistan.

Small Turkmen - English Glossary
Prepared by the Peace Corps Turkmenistan.

Altyn Asyr Zone: Turkmen Language
A brief user-friendly Turkmen language grammar index.

Turkmen - English Dictionary and Grammar
10,000 word Turkmen-English Dictionary with a 20-page introduction to Turkmen grammar.