Trukhmen

Trukhmen (Russian: Трухме́нский язык, romanized: Trukhmensky yazyk), is a dialect of the Turkmen language^[2][3] spoken amongst the North Caucasus Turkmen of Russia's Stavropol krai.

Trukhmen
Trukhmen
Native to	Russia
Region	Stavropol krai
Ethnicity	Trukhmens
Native speakers	9,357 in Stavropol (2021)[1]
Language family	Turkic Oghuz Eastern Oghuz Turkmen Trukhmen
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	None

Trukhmen preserves many characteristic Turkmen features, while also showing influence from by the Nogai language (especially in phonetics, grammatical structures and, to some extent, in vocabulary)^[4] as well as from Russian.^[5] The main cause of dialectal differences in Trukhmen is the contact of its speakers with other ethnic groups, such as Nogais, Tatars and Kalmyks.^[6] Members of the North Caucasus Turkmen community have published works in the Turkmen language since at least the early 20th century.^[7]