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What is Turkmen and where is it spoken?

Turkmen (Türkmen dili) is an Oghuz Turkic language closely related to Turkish and Azerbaijani, with around 7 million speakers — most in Turkmenistan, with significant communities in Iran (notably Golestan), Afghanistan, Iraq and Russia. It is the sole official language of Turkmenistan and one of the closest large surviving languages to Old Anatolian Turkic.

What scripts have been used for Turkmen?

Turkmen has changed scripts four times in a century: Perso-Arabic until the 1920s, a Latin alphabet from 1928, Cyrillic from 1940 (under Soviet rule), and back to a 30-letter Latin alphabet by presidential decree in 1991, finalised in 1999. Today the Latin alphabet is the only official form. It has full vowel harmony like other Turkic languages and uses ä, ý, ö, ü and ş among its distinctive letters.