Turkmenistan

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Turkmenistan
A country in Asia
The number of individual languages listed for Turkmenistan is 5. Of these, 4 are living and 1 is extinct. Of the living languages, 1 is institutional, 1 is developing, and 2 are vigorous.
Official Name
Republic of Turkmenistan
Population

5,110,000 (2008 UNSD)

Principal Languages
Turkmen
Literacy Rate
100% (2010 UNESCO)
Immigrant Languages
Armenian (32,000), Bashkort (2,610), Belarusan (5,290), Brahui, Dargwa (1,600), Dungan, Erzya (3,490), Georgian (1,050), Iranian Persian (8,000), Karakalpak (2,540), Kazakh (88,000), Korean (1,000), Lak (1,590), Lezgi (10,400), Lithuanian (220), North Azerbaijani (33,000), Ossetic (1,890), Romanian (1,560), Russian (349,000), Tabassaran (180), Tajiki (1,280), Tatar (40,400), Ukrainian (37,100)
General References
Sebeok 1963
Language Counts
The number of individual languages listed for Turkmenistan is 5. Of these, 4 are living and 1 is extinct. Of the living languages, 1 is institutional, 1 is developing, and 2 are vigorous.