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Turkmen alphabet and characters
The Turkmen alphabet should display only the following characters. If your document is not showing correctly, then first check that the encoding for that program and font supports Turkic languages.
Lower-case characters:
Upper-case characters
Turkmen grammar rules
Nouns
Like other Turkic languages Turkmen is agglutinative, e.g. grammatical forms are created by adding various suffixes to fixed stems.
Nouns have plural and singular forms. There is no grammatical gender. There are six cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative, locative. There are no articles.
Verbs
Turkmen formatting rules
Date formats
| First day of the week | Monday |
| Working days | Monday to Friday |
| Short date format | dd.MM.yy |
| e.g. 23.03.16 | |
| Long date format | d-nji(y) MMMM yyyy-nji(y) ýyl. |
| e.g. 17-nji mart 2016-nji ýyl. |
Numbers and currency
Turkmen capitalisation usage
Should be capitalised
- Names of user interface elements (commands, menus, dialog box titles), program names, etc.
- Only the first word is capitalized, e.g., Arabaglanyşyk dolandyryjysy, Daşky gurşaw
- When referred to names of user interface elements should always be marked by font style (e.g. bold) or, if that is not possible, enclosed in quotes.
- Acronyms
- Proper names
- There are several names in which all words are capitalized:
- country and state names (Amerikanyň Birleşen Ştatlary, Birleşen Milletler Guramasy),
- political names (Ýokary Gözegçilik, Türkmenistanyň Ministrler Kabineti). If you are sure that all the words should be capitalized, do it.
Should NOT be capitalised
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