Turkmen people
(Redirected from Turkmens)
 Turkmen man of Ashgabat wearing a traditional Kalpak hat | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| c. 6 million[a] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 Turkmenistan | |
| 4,248,000 | |
 Iran | 1,328,585 |
 Turkey | 230,000–1 million |
 Afghanistan | 200,000 |
 Uzbekistan | 152,000 |
 Pakistan | 110,000 |
 Russia | 46,885 |
 Tajikistan | 15,171 |
 Azerbaijan | 10,000 |
 Ukraine | 7,709 |
 Kyrgyzstan | 5,200 |
 Kazakhstan | 3,000 |
 United States | 3,000 |
 United Kingdom | 784 |
| Languages | |
| Turkmen language | |
| Religion | |
| Mostly Sunni Islam | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Other Turkic peoples | |
Turkmens are one of the main Turkic ethnic group in Central Asia, mainly in Turkmenistan, ethnic minorities in Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Afghanistan and Iran. They speak Turkmen language of the Turkic languages family. Engagements, marriages, and the circumcision of boys, known as the sünnet parties, are big festivals.
The term Turkoman was also used for people who take a Turkish identity and lost their own original background, as example in the case of the so called Balkan Turkoman Gipsys, a subgroup of the Xoraxane Roma.[1]
