Turkmen (Türkmençe, türkmen dili; Түркменче, түркмен дили تۆرکمن دﻴﻠی ,تۆرکمنچه [tyɾkmentʃe, tyɾkmen dili]) is an official language of Turkmenistan. It is a Turkic language spoken by 3.5 million people in Turkmenistan as well as by around 719,000 people in northeastern Iran. The group known as "Iraqi Turkmen" are actually speakers of South Azeri and not all tribes that are called "Turkmen" in northeastern Iran are speakers of Turkmen; many are speakers of Khorasani Turkic. and 1.5 million people in northwestern Afghanistan.
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The Foreign Service Institute has classified Turkmen as a "Hard" language. It is estimated that learning Turkmen to a Professional Working Proficiency in the language (a score of Speaking-3/Reading-3 on the Interagency Language Roundtable scale) will take an average of 44 weeks (1100 class hours).[1]
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- ↑ U.S. Department of State; FSI's Experience with Language Learning; https://www.state.gov/m/fsi/sls/c78549.htm