Introduction

There are over six million speakers of Turkmen world-wide, most of them located in Turkmenistan, Iran, and Afghanistan. Turkmen society is still fairly tribal, so that the Turkmen language is made up of several dialects (the main Turkmen tribes are: Teke, Ýomut, Äsary, Salyr, Çowdur, Gökleň, Norhurly and Saryk).