Trukhmen dialect
Turkmen dialect spoken in Stavropol region, Russia
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Trukhmen (Russian: Трухме́нский язык, romanized: Trukhmensky yazyk), is a dialect of the Turkmen language[2][3] spoken amongst the North Caucasus Turkmen of Russia's Stavropol krai.
| Trukhmen | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Russia |
| Region | Stavropol krai |
| Ethnicity | Trukhmens |
Native speakers | 9,357 in Stavropol (2021)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | None |
Trukhmen preserves many characteristic Turkmen features, while also showing influence from by the Nogai language (especially in phonetics, grammatical structures and, to some extent, in vocabulary)[4] as well as from Russian.[5] The main cause of dialectal differences in Trukhmen is the contact of its speakers with other ethnic groups, such as Nogais, Tatars and Kalmyks.[6] Members of the North Caucasus Turkmen community have published works in the Turkmen language since at least the early 20th century.[7]
