Southern Turkmen
| Southern Turkmen | |
|---|---|
| Afghan Turkmen | |
| گونورتا توركمنلر | |
| Native to | Afghanistan[1], Iran[2], Pakistan[3], Xinjiang[4] |
Native speakers | 2-3 million[5] |
Turkic
| |
| Nastaliq script, Latin script | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
Southern Turkmen, also known as Iranian or Afghan Turkmen, is the variant of the Turkmen language spoken in Iran[6] and Afghanistan.[7] It is currently written in the Perso-Arabic script, though some use the original Turkmen Latin script.[8]
Southern Turkmen is mutually intelligible with the Turkmen variety spoken in Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. There are a few differences, such as the script and the fact that Southern Turkmen borrows more Persian loanwords.[6] There has also been Arabic influence in Southern Turkmen.
See also
References
- Turkmen Archived 2020-06-03 at the Wayback Machine
- Turkmen language, alphabets and pronunciation
- Turkmen Language - Structure, Writing & Alphabet - MustGo
- The Iranian Turkmen language from a contact linguistics perspective
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- ↑ "The Ethnic Groups Of Afghanistan". WorldAtlas. Retrieved Aug 8, 2021.
- ↑ "Iran". Ethnologue. Retrieved Aug 8, 2021.
- ↑ Project, Joshua. "Turkmen in Pakistan". joshuaproject.net. Retrieved Aug 8, 2021.
- ↑ "China's Minority Peoples - The Salars - China culture". Oct 5, 2013. Archived from the original on 2013-10-05. Retrieved Aug 8, 2021.
- ↑ "Turkmen - Worldwide distribution". Worlddata.info. Retrieved Aug 8, 2021.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Turkmen". Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region. Archived from the original on June 3, 2020. Retrieved Aug 8, 2021.
- ↑ "What Languages do People Speak in Afghanistan?". worldpopulationreview.com. Retrieved Aug 8, 2021.
- ↑ "Turkmen language, alphabets and pronunciation". omniglot.com. Retrieved Aug 8, 2021.
