Trukhmen (), is a dialect of the Turkmen languageЯзыки 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) as well as from Russian.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. Members of the North Caucasus Turkmen community have published works in the Turkmen language since at least the early 20th century.
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