Locale Tk Tm
Use when working with the Turkmen (Turkmenistan) locale (`tk-TM`) — its endonym Türkmençe (Türkmenistan), 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 (Turkmenistan) locale — endonym Türkmençe (Türkmenistan), written in the Latin script, left-to-right (LTR).
Identifiers
- BCP 47 tag:
tk-TM - ISO 639-1:
tk - ISO 639-3:
tuk - Script: Latn (Latin)
- Region: TM (Turkmenistan)
- 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
Base locale
This is a regional variant of Locale Tk 001 (Turkmen), the base/macro locale for this language.
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
Apply Locale Tk 001 with the conventions of Turkmenistan.
- Context: Turkmen is the state language and Russian is used in some official contexts. Official content follows government terminology and style.
- Formats: manat; dates
17.10.2026; 24-hour clock; decimal comma.
Common pitfalls
- Using Cyrillic Turkmen.
- Using informal tone in official content.
- The general pitfalls in Locale Tk 001 also apply.
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.
- Unicode CLDR locale data for number, date, and currency formats (https://cldr.unicode.org)