GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

GK

COUNTRY LANGUAGES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which is the official language of “Turkmenistan"?
A
Swati
B
Arabic
C
Spanish
D
Turkmen
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Turkmen language, member of the Turkic language family within the Altaic language group. Turkmen is spoken in Turkmenistan, in parts of neighbouring Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, and, by fewer people, in Iran and Afghanistan.

Detailed explanation-2: -Turkmen is spoken natively by about 7 million people worldwide, with approximately 1 million more speaking it as a second language. The majority of Turkmen speakers are located in Eurasia and Central Asia, with the highest concentrations located in Turkmenistan, Iran, and Afghanistan.

Detailed explanation-3: -In Turkmenistan the spoken language is Russian, Turkmen, Uzbek and the written language is Turkmen.

Detailed explanation-4: -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".

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