TURKMEN LANGUAGE

                           TURKMEN LANGUAGE

Turkmen is the official language of Turkmenistan and the language of the Turkmen peoples of Central Asia. It is a Turkic language spoken by 3.5 million people in Turkmenistan as well as by around 719,000 people in northeastern Iran and 1.5 million people in northwestern Afghanistan. Not all "Turkmen" in northeastern Iran are speakers of Turkmen; many are speakers of Khorasani Turkic.

Turkmen is a member of the East Oghuz branch of the Turkic family of languages; its closest relatives being Turkish and Azerbaijani, with which it shares a relatively high degree of mutual intelligibility.

BASIC EXPRESSIONS:

English	Turkmen
yes	hawa
no	ýok
goodbye	sag boluň, hoş
good morning	ertiriňiz haýyrly bolsun
good evening	agşamyňyz haýyrly bolsun
good night	gijäňiz rahat bolsun
please	-aý/-äý [a]
thank you	sag boluň
Do you speak English?	Siz iňlis dilinde gepleýärsiňizmi?
I don't speak Turkmen	Men türkmen dilinde geplemeýärin
What does it mean?	Munuň manysy näme?

VERBS:

There are two types of verbs in Turkmen, distinguished by their infinitive forms: those ending in the suffix "-mak" and those ending in "-mek". -Mak verbs follow back vowel harmony, whereas -mek verbs follow front vowel harmony.

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