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Locale Tk 001

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Use when working with the Turkmen locale (`tk-001`) — its endonym Türkmençe, Latin script, left-to-right (LTR) direction, or spoken-population data. Reference data and translation guidance (register, grammar, idiom, typography) for this specific locale; see [[locale]] for general i18n/l10n concepts (BCP 47, plural rules, RTL) that apply across all locales.

Reference data for the Turkmen locale — endonym Türkmençe, written in the Latin script, left-to-right (LTR).

Identifiers

  • BCP 47 tag: tk-001
  • ISO 639-1: tk
  • ISO 639-3: tuk
  • Script: Latn (Latin)
  • Region: 001 (World)
  • Text direction: ltr — left-to-right (LTR)

Speakers (approximate)

  • L1 (native): 6,800,000
  • L2 (additional): 1,000,000
  • L1+L2 (total): 7,800,000

Regional variants

This is the base/macro locale for Turkmen. Region-specific variants in this dataset:

Pluralization

CLDR plural categories for this locale: one, other (2 forms).

  • one — n = 1 (e.g. 1)
  • other — everything else (e.g. 0, 2~16, 100, 1000, …)

See Unicode Messageformat for writing plural messages using these categories.

Translating into this locale

Turkmen is a Turkic language written in the Latin script in Turkmenistan (with the letters ä, ç, ž, ň, ö, ş, ü, ý). See Locale Tk Tm. This guidance is lower-confidence; have a native reviewer check it.

Translate ideas, not words.

  • Turkmen is agglutinative with vowel harmony and subject-object-verb order. Do not translate through Russian or Turkish.
  • Use Turkmen terminology where it exists, not raw Russian loanwords.
  • Re-express idioms by meaning.

Grammar and register.

  • Vowel harmony; no gender; no plural after numerals.
  • Siz is the polite form for UI and public text; sen is informal.

Orthography and typography.

  • Use ä, ç, ž, ň, ö, ş, ü, ý exactly; never replace them with ASCII look-alikes.
  • Currency manat; decimal comma; dates 17.10.2026; 24-hour clock.

Common pitfalls

  • Using Turkish or Azerbaijani spelling.
  • Replacing special letters with ASCII.
  • Using Cyrillic for a Turkmenistan audience.

Learn more

  • Locale for BCP 47 identifiers, locale-sensitive formatting, pluralization, and text-direction concepts that apply across all locales.
  • Unicode Messageformat for writing plural/selection messages correctly for this locale's grammar.
  • Turkmenistan Academy of Sciences, Institute of Language and Literature
  • Unicode CLDR locale data for tk (https://cldr.unicode.org)

View locale-tk-001/SKILL.md on GitHub