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Turkmen literature (Turkmen: Türkmen edebiýaty) comprises oral compositions and written texts in the Old Oghuz Turkic and Turkmen languages. The Turkmens are direct descendants of the Oghuz Turks , who were a western Turkic people , who formed the Oghuz branch of the Turkic language family .
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 ...
Sharing a common history, religion, language and culture, the two states have balanced special relations based on mutual respect and the principle of "One Nation, Two States". [19] Turkmen language is very close to Turkish with regard to linguistic properties. However, there are a couple of differences due to regional and historical reasons.
Turkoman, also known as Turcoman [note 1] (English: / ˈ t ɜːr k ə m ə n /), [2] was a term for the people of Oghuz Turkic origin, widely used during the Middle Ages.Oghuz Turks were a western Turkic people that, in the 8th century A.D, formed a tribal confederation in an area between the Aral and Caspian seas in Central Asia, and spoke the Oghuz branch of the Turkic language family.
Their language belongs to the Oghuz group of the Turkic languages family. Kara-Khanid scholar Mahmud al-Kashgari wrote that of all the Turkic languages, that of the Oghuz was the simplest. He also observed that long separation had led to clear differences between the western Oghuz and Kipchak language and that of the eastern Turks. [ 15 ]
By the 13th century, the term Turkmen supplanted the designation Oghuz altogether. The origin of the word Turkmen remains unclear. According to popular etymologies as old as the 11th century, the word derives from Turk plus the Iranian element manand, and means "resembling a Turk." Modern scholars, on the other hand, have proposed that the ...
100 manat banknote of Turkmenistan depicting Oghuz Khan. Shajara-i Tarākima can be divided into three parts: information of a Quranic nature (the story of Adam); information based on the Oghuz-Turkmen epic, which includes the story of Oghuz Khan and his descendants, and information acquired through oral tradition about the origin, division and location of the Oghuz tribes (in particular, the ...
Magtymguly Pyragy (Persian: مخدوم قلی فراغی Makhdumqoli [a] Farāghi; Turkmen: Magtymguly Pyragy; Turkmen pronunciation: [ˌmɑɣtɯmɢʊˈlɯ ˌpɯɾɑːˈɣɯ]; c. 1724 – 1807), [2] born Magtymguly, was an Iranian-Turkmen [3] spiritual leader, philosophical poet, Sufi and traveller, who is considered the most famous figure in Turkmen literary history.