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Outside the capital, the national language of Turkmen is the most widely encountered. In Ashgabat and Türkmenbaşy, the Russian language is commonly encountered; however, with recent efforts to revive the ancient culture of Turkmenistan, Turkmen is quickly regaining its place as the chief language of the state.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 25 February 2025. Oghuz Turkic ethnic group of Central Asia This article is about the Central Asian ethnic group. For other ethnic groups, see Turkmen (disambiguation) § Ethnic groups. Ethnic group Turkmens Türkmenler Түркменлер توركمنلر Turkmens in folk costume at the 20th ...
The name of Turkmenistan (Turkmen: Türkmenistan) can be divided into two components: the ethnonym Türkmen and the Persian suffix -stan meaning "place of" or "country".The name "Turkmen" comes from Turk, plus the Sogdian suffix -men, meaning "almost Turk", in reference to their status outside the Turkic dynastic mythological system.
Simple English; Slovenščina; ... Pages in category "Culture of Turkmenistan" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
Turkmen (türkmençe, түркменче, تۆرکمنچه , [tʏɾkmøntʃø] [4] or türkmen dili, түркмен дили, تۆرکمن ديلی , [tʏɾkmøn dɪlɪ]) [5] is a Turkic language of the Oghuz branch spoken by the Turkmens of Central Asia.
Israeli Turkmen, a Turkish minority living in Israel; Lebanese Turkmen, a Turkish minority living in Lebanon; Palestinian Turkmen, a Turkish minority living in the region of Palestine; Syrian Turkmen, a Turkish minority living mostly in northern Syria; Yörüks, a semi-nomadic group in Anatolia often referred to as Turkmen in Turkey
Turkmen bread baking in tandyr Pishme Turkmen girls at a Novruz festival greet guests with pishme and dried fruits. Meals are almost always served with naan, Central Asian flatbread, known locally as çörek. Turkmen bread is prepared differently from other breads in the region in thick, round disc-shaped loaves baked in a traditional tamdyr ...
Historically each Turkmen tribe has had its own unique carpet pattern, clothing, headgear and dialect. [7] [8] [9] Teke Turkmen carpets often feature a standard Teke rosette (Turkmen: göl), called the guşly göl, which in the words of O'Bannon "has the least variation of all Turkoman guls [sic] and has apparently changed least through time.