About Tamil Language
According to Wikipedia.org, Tamil Language is spoken in India and is a part of the Dravidian language family. It is the official language of Tamil Nadu state, Srilanka, and even Singapore. There are a lot of speakers of Tamil in Malaysia, Mauritius, Fiji, and South Africa. It was in 2004 when Tamil was declared as the official language in India. This language has an independent and distinctive nature. It is strongly inspired by ancient literature. More than 66 million people speak Tamil. Just like many other Dravidian languages, Tamil features a series of consonants. There are a lot of Tamil dialects but they are very much different from one another. They all have gone through different phonological changes. Some dialects are more similar to the Old Tamil while others resemble the modern Tamil. Most of them don’t have any difference in vocabulary but there can be some exceptions at times.
About Turkmen Language
According to Wikipedia.org, Turkmen is popularly known as Turkmen-Turkic or Turkmen-Turkish. It is a Turkic language and is spoken by the Turkmens of Central Asia. It is mainly spoken in Turkmenistan, Iran, and Afghanistan. The language has an estimated five million native speakers. It is spoken in Turkmenistan, and has around 719,000 speakers in Northeastern Iran. Turkmen is also spoken by 1.5 million people in Northwestern Afghanistan. Turkmen is the official language of Turkmenistan. The language doesn’t have an official status in Iran or Afghanistan. Turkmen is also spoken in Turkmen communities of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. The language is majorly spoken in Turkey and Russia. Turkmen belongs to the branch of Oghuz branch of the Turkic languages. The language has a standardized form of Turkmen and is spoken in the Teke dialect. Iranian Turkmen uses the Yomud dialect. The Afghan Turkmen uses Ersary variety and is closely related to Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar, Gagauz, Qashqai, and Turkish.
