What is the language spoken in Turkmenistan?

Answer 1

Turkmen language

Answer 2

Many. The name Turkmenistan is derived from Persian, meaning "land of the Turkmen". Until 1991 it was a constituent republic of the Soviet Union. The majority of Turkmenistan's citizens are ethnic Turkmen with sizeable minorities of Russians and Uzbeks. Smaller minorities include Ukrainians, Kazakhs, Azeris, Armenians and Tatars. Turkmen is the official language of Turkmenistan, though Russian still is widely spoken.

The Turkmen (Түркмен) are a Turkic people who speak the Turkmen language (Turkic) which is classified as part of the Western Oghuz branch of Turkic languages family together with Turkish, Azerbaijani, and Turkoman spoken in Iraq.

The Uzbeck minority although being a Turkic people too, speak an Altaic language - part of the South-eastern (Central Asian) or Karluk group of Turkic languages.

There is also some Kazakh spoken, which belongs to Kipchak (Northwestern) group of the Turkic language family. Kazakh is characterized, in distinction to other Turkic languages, by the presence of /s/ in place of reconstructed proto-Turkic */š/ and /š/ in place of */ç/; furthermore, Kazakh has /j/ (alveodental affricate) where other Turkic languages have /y/ (glide). These are just some of the many phonological differences between Kazakh and other Turkic languages.

The ethnic Azerbaijanis are commonly referred to as Azeris or Caucasus and speak the Azerbaijani language which is mutually intelligible with Turkmen and Turkish.

There is also a group of The Armenians - an Indo-European language which contains Greek words introduced by Alexander the Great - as well as a group of Turco-speaking Tatars who call themself Tatarlar and speak the mongolian style Turkic

Being on the silk road, Chinese, Mongolian, Arabic and Russian are also spoken, with Rusian being the language of trade.

Answer 3

Turkmen belongs to the family of Turkic languages spoken in Eastern Europe (Tatar, Bashkir, Chuvash), the Caucasus (Azeri, Kumik), Siberia (Yakut, Tuva, Khakas), China (Uygur, Kazakh), Central Asia (Kazak, Kirghiz, Uzbek), and the Near East (Turkish, Azeri). Its closest relatives are the languages of the Turks in northeastern Iran and the Khorazm Province of south central Uzbekistan (Khorasani), Azerbaijan (Azeri), and Turkey (Turkish), all of which belong to the Oghuz group of this language family.

Answer 4

russian