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.
About Kannada Language
According to Wikipedia.org, Kannada is commonly known as Kanarese. It is a Dravidian language and is spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in the region of India. It is spoken by linguistic minorities in Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Kerala, and Goa. Kannada has roughly 43 million native speakers. It is also spoken as a second and third language. Kannada has over 12.9 million non-native speakers in Karnataka. Kannada was the court language in many powerful dynasties of south and central India. It is one of the official languages of India and the official language of the state of Karnataka. Kannada has a special Kannada script, which is called the Kadamba script. Kannada has an unbroken literary history and has an extensive Kannada literature.
