10 Facts About Turkmen language

Turkmen, sporadically referred to as "Turkmen Turkic" or "Turkmen Turkish", is a Turkic language spoken by the Turkmens of Central Asia, mainly of Turkmenistan, Iran, and Afghanistan.

Turkmen language is spoken to lesser varying degrees in Turkmen language communities of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan and by diaspora communities, primarily in Turkey and Russia.

Elsewhere in Iran, the Turkmen language comes second after the Azerbaijani language in terms of the number of speakers of Turkic languages of Iran.

Iraqi and Syrian "Turkmen language" speak dialects that form a continuum between Turkish and Azerbaijani, in both cases heavily influenced by Arabic.

Turkmen language has vowel harmony, is agglutinative and has no grammatical gender.

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Turkmen language is very close to Turkish with regard to linguistic properties.

The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Turkmen SSR instructed the Research Institute of Language and Literature to draw up a draft of a new alphabet.

In May 1940, the Council of People's Commissars of the Turkmen language SSR adopted a resolution on the transition to a new alphabet of all state and public institutions from July 1, 1940, and on the beginning of teaching the new alphabet in schools from September 1 of the same year.

Turkmen language is the son of a brave man, his father is valiant, Gorogly is his brother, fervent is his head, If the hunters chase him in the mountains and valleys, The lion son of Turkmen cannot be caught alive.

Turkmen language will come out like drunk, will not despair, Turkmen language will move mountains, his path will not be blocked, My eyes will not gaze away, and the soul will not muse, Magtymguly speaks the language of the Turkmen.