Trukhmen

{{Short description|Turkmen dialect spoken in Stavropol region, Russia}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Trukhmen

| altname = Trukhmen

| nativename =

| familycolor = Altaic

| states = Russia

| region = Stavropol krai

| fam1 = Turkic

| fam2 = Oghuz

| fam3 = Eastern Oghuz

| fam4 = Turkmen

| fam5 =

| isoexception = dialect

| glotto = none

| ethnicity = Trukhmens

| speakers = 9,357 in Stavropol

| date = 2021

| ref = {{cite web |title=2021 Russian census |url=https://rosstat.gov.ru/storage/mediabank/Tom5_tab5_VPN-2020.xlsx |access-date=16 January 2025}}

}}

Trukhmen ({{langx|ru|Трухме́нский язык|translit=Trukhmensky yazyk}}), is a dialect of the Turkmen language{{cite book |title=Język kazachski |last=Łabenda |first=Michał |authorlink=Michał Łabenda |year=2000 |publisher=Wydawnictwo Akademickie DIALOG |location=Warsaw |isbn=83-88238-59-0 |page=6 |url= |accessdate=}}Языки мира. Тюркские языки, В. Н. Ярцев, Бишкек 1997, p. 412. spoken amongst the North Caucasus Turkmen of Russia's Stavropol krai.

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){{cite web | url=http://www.eki.ee/books/redbook/trukhmens.shtml | title=The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire }} as well as from Russian.[https://books.google.com/books?id=WKrN10g4whAC&dq=trukhmen&pg=PA194 The peoples of the USSR: an ethnographic handbook by Ronald Wixman [online]] The main cause of dialectal differences in Trukhmen is the contact of its speakers with other ethnic groups, such as Nogais, Tatars and Kalmyks.{{cite journal |last1=Aslan |first1=Sema |title=TRUHMEN: KUZEY KAFKASYA'DA TARİHİ BİR TÜRKMEN DİASPORA DEĞİŞKESİ |journal=Tehlikedeki Diller Dergisi |date=1 December 2013 |volume=2 |issue=2 |pages=75–87 |url=https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/tdd/issue/29412/314974 |access-date=16 January 2025 |language=tr |issn=2148-130X |quote=... who had intense relations with the Nogays and Tatars, adapted many elements and as a result of the intralingual interaction ... When another language of contact, Kalmyk, and ... Russian, were added to this, a multi-layered language relationship situation emerged.}}

Members of the North Caucasus Turkmen community have published works in the Turkmen language since at least the early 20th century.{{cite web |last1=Condill |first1=Kit |title=Comparative Nationalisms and Bibliographic Black Holes: The Case of the Turkmen of the North Caucasus |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/1B887C7B5275A319BADBD46FA3395F69/S0090599220000859a.pdf/comparative-nationalisms-and-bibliographic-black-holes-the-case-of-the-turkmen-of-the-north-caucasus.pdf |website=Cambridge Core |publisher=Cambridge University Press}}