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Turkmen (Turkic language / Oghuz language ) is the official language of Turkmenistan (per the 1992 Constitution), although Russian still is widely spoken in cities as a "language of inter-ethnic communication".
Turkmen is spoken by 72% of the population, Russian 12%, Uzbek 9%,[1] and other languages 7%.
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2 See also
3 References
4 External links
List
Language | 1999 [2] |
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Russian | 349,000 |
Uzbek | 317,000 |
Kazakh | 88,000 |
Tatar | 40,400 |
Ukrainian | 37,118 |
Azerbaijani | 33,000 |
Armenian | 32,000 |
Northern Kurdish | 20,000 |
Lezgian | 10,400 |
Persian | 8,000 |
Belarusian | 5,290 |
Erzya | 3,490 |
Korean | 3,490 |
Bashkir | 2,610 |
Karakalpak | 2,540 |
Ossetic | 1,890 |
Dargwa | 1,600 |
Lak | 1,590 |
Tajik | 1,280 |
Georgian | 1,050 |
Lithuanian | 224 |
Tabasaran | 180 |
Dungan |
See also
- Demographics of Turkmenistan
References
^ CIA Website
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External links
- https://en.hronikatm.com/2014/07/the-use-of-russian-language-in-education-to-be-reduced-in-turkmenistan/
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