Languages of Turkmenistan
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%.
List
| Language | 1999 [2] |
|---|---|
| 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
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References
- ↑ CIA Website
- ↑ Ethnologue (1999-02-19). "Ethnologue". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2013-11-25.
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