The Turkmen Language belongs to the greater family of Turkic languages. The Turkic languages, together with the Mongolian and Manchu-Tungus languages, form the Ural-Altaic language group. Specifically, Turkmen is included in the sub-group of Southern Turkic (Oguz) languages, along with Turkish, Crimean Tatar, and Azeri. Southern Turkic is a sub-group of Common Turkic, which also includes Kazakh, Uzbek, Uigur, Kyrgyz, and others.