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Are Turkish and Turkmen the same language?

Turkmen belongs to the West Oghuz branch of the Turkic language family, which includes languages such as Turkish, Azerbaijani, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, and Uzbek. In fact, Turkmen is so similar to Turkish and Azerbaijani that many scholars consider these languages to be mutually intelligible.

Is Turkman a language?

Turkmen
Turkmenistan/Official languages

Can Azerbaijan understand Turkish?

Speakers of Turkish and Azerbaijani can, to an extent, communicate with each other as both languages have substantial variation and are to a degree mutually intelligible, though it is easier for a speaker of Azerbaijani to understand Turkish than the other way around.

What language do people in Turkey speak?

Turkish
Turkey/Official languages

What language Turkmenistan speak?

What is the difference between Turkmen and Turkish language?

Turkmen language is very close to Turkish with regard to linguistic properties. However, there are a couple of differences due to regional and historical reasons. Most morphophonetic rules are common in Turkmen and Turkish languages, though they use different alphabets.

What is the most widely spoken language in Turkey?

Turkish language. Turkish (Türkçe (help·info)), also referred to as Istanbul Turkish, is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, with around 10–15 million native speakers in Southeast Europe (mostly in East and Western Thrace) and 60–65 million native speakers in Western Asia (mostly in Anatolia).

What are the phonemes of the Turkmen language?

The following phonemes are present in the Turkmen language: Turkmen contains both short and long vowels. Doubling the duration of sound for a short vowel is generally how its long vowel counterpart is pronounced. Turkmen employs vowel harmony, a principle that is common in fellow Turkic languages.

Are there any Turkmen speakers in Iran?

However, many Iranian “Turkmen” are speakers of Khorasani Turkic. Moreover, Iraqi and Syrian “Turkmen” speak dialects that form a continuum between Turkish and Azerbaijani, in both cases heavily influenced by Arabic. These three varieties are not Turkmen in the sense of this article.