Country scorecard
Turkmenistan
Asia · 6.4M people
ALPS
1.44
languages per person
#144 of 235 most multilingual
GLCI
3%
globally connected
Moderately multilingual — the average person here speaks 1.4 languages.
Most connected partners
Where a random person from Turkmenistan is most likely to share a language — the pair GLCI.
- 🇷🇺 Russia40%
- 🇧🇾 Belarus40%
- 🇺🇦 Ukraine32%
- 🇦🇲 Armenia29%
- 🇱🇹 Lithuania26%
What people speak
Share of the population with at least conversational (A2+) command.
- Turkmen99%
- Russian40%
- English5%
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