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Turkmen

Turkmen is the official language of Turkmenistan, spoken by millions in Central Asia. It is part of the Turkic language family and is written in the Latin alphabet.

  • Classification

    Altaic > Turkic

  • Speakers

    8 million

  • Script

    Roman

  • Text direction

    Left-to-right

  • Official language

    Turkmenistan

  • Also spoken

    Iraq, Uzbekistan, Iran, Afghanistan

Turkmen

Turkmen is a part of the Turkic language group and an official language of Turkmenistan. There are also significant Turkmen-speaking minorities in Iran and Afghanistan. It is mutually intelligible with Turkish.

Over the years, Turkmen has been written with several scripts – first with Arabic, then Latin, then Cyrillic, before reverting back to Latin script.

In 2002 President Niyazov of Turkmenistan decided to rename both the months of the year and the days of the week. The days of the week are: First Day (Monday), Young Day (Tuesday), Favourable Day (Wednesday), Justice Day (Thursday). Friday remained largely unchanged but Saturday became “Spiritual Day” and Sunday “Rest Day”.

At Geo Language Services, our Turkmen translations ensure linguistic accuracy and cultural relevance, making sure your message resonates with Turkmen-speaking audiences.

Services offered for this language

Translation / Transcreation / Subtitling / Localization / Adaptation / Copywriting / Authoring / Proofreading / Revision / Editing / Translation quality assurance / Terminology / Linguistic validation / Glossary creation / Dubbing / Voice-overs / Transcription / Typesetting / Simultaneous interpreting / Consecutive interpreting / Conference interpreting / Telephone interpreting / Public service interpreting / Interpreting equipment hire / Foreign language consulting

Interesting fact

Under the presidency of Saparmurat Niyazov it was ordered that the Turkmen word for "bread" (chorek) be renamed to "gurbansoltan edzhe" after the president's deceased mother. It has now reverted to "chorek"...

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