Turkmenistan Languages

Description
Turkmen is the official language of Turkmenistan per the 1992 Constitution.

As of 1999:
 * Turkmen was spoken by 72%
 * Russian by 12%
 * Uzbek by 9%
 * Other languages by 7%

Since the late 20th century, the government of Turkmenistan has taken steps to distance itself from the Russian language. The first step in this campaign was the shift to the Latin alphabet in 1993,