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Language code: tk

Technical information about ISO 639 language code tk

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The table below provides technical details for the Turkmen language, designated by the tk code from the ISO 639-1 standard.

Code

tk

Name

Official

Turkmen

Native

Türkmençe

Family
Oghuz
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
TekeYomutErsari
Related languages
TurkishAzerbaijaniQashqaiGagauzSalar
Key facts
Belongs to the Oghuz branch of the Turkic familyModern Turkmen is written with a Latin alphabet adopted in 1993 after periods of Arabic and Cyrillic scriptsThe language follows strict vowel harmony and is highly agglutinativeStandard Turkmen is based primarily on the Teke dialectClassical poet Magtymguly Pyragy (18th c.) profoundly influenced the literary language
Sample phrase

Salam, ýagdaýyň nähili?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

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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.

Language presence globally

Speakers

Turkmenistan

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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