tk
Technical information about ISO 639 language code tk
The table below provides technical details for the Turkmen language, designated by the tk
code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
Turkmen belongs to the Turkic language family, specifically the Oghuz subgroup. It is the official language of Turkmenistan. It is primarily written using the Latin script, although historically, it has also been written in Cyrillic and Perso-Arabic scripts. It is estimated that there are around 6 million speakers worldwide.
Speakers
4.3M
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Turkmen speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
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