Turkmen is in the Turkic group of the Altaic language family. It is a southern Turkic language, in the Turkmenian group, closely related to Crimean Turkish[?] and Salar[?], and less closely related to Turkish and Azeri (Azerbaijani).
Turkmen is written using the Cyrillic alphabet.
Source: Ethnologue, SIL code: TCK
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