Talk:2002 renaming of Turkmen months and days of week

Compilation

This page is a compilation of various news resources on the subject. Although i created it, i don't have much more in-depth knowledge on the subject than i have written here. I have a question myself - if anyone can answer, may the light of the wisdom of Ruhnama shine upon him for ages :)

The question is: can anyone elaborate on the old Turkmen names for days of week? To the best of my understanding, most of them are of Persian origin - yek, du, char and pen are definitely one, two, four and five and sis and shen are probably three and seven, but where does Anna come from? Unfortunately i didn't get any proper education in neither Turkic nor Iranian languages...--Amir E. Aharoni 09:40, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

Yes you are right, the persian names for the days of the week are as follows:

Saturday: Shanbe (the word shanbe is the persianized form of the arabic word Sab'at meaning seven)

Sunday: Yek shanbe (Yek means one in persian) Monday: Do shanbe (do means two in persian) Tuesday: seh shanbe (seh means three in persian) Wednsday: Chahar shanbe (chahar means four in persian) Thursday: panj shanbe (panj means five in persian) Friday: jom'e in contemporary persian but Adineh in older persian (I think Anna might be a corruption of Adineh)

I also corrected the discription of norouz according to the norouz page on wikipedia.

Widespread usage?

Has anyone seen published reports or othewise have verifiable knowledge of how widely these new names are used in non-governmental, non-offical contexts? For example, I have over the years seen several published reports that the general public in Vietnam mostly refers to "Ho Chi Minh City" as "Saigon", "Karl-Marx-Stadt" of the old GDR was generally still, unofficially, "Chemintz", and almost no one but the most map-bound of tourists refers to Sixth Avenue in New York City as "Avenue of the Americas". So do people really use this stuff candidly? Are they afraid not to? I'd really like to know, and if someone has verifiable sources, see the answer included in the article. Rlquall 18:01, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Sorry to disappoint you - i don't know.

I know about it all from the Internet. Official sites use the new names, opposition wouldn't touch them with a hundred yard stick and i haven't yet seen any Turkmen blogs from simple people ... My hunch is that nobody actually uses it, but i don't have any sources. --Amir E. Aharoni 21:24, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Name of article

Shouldn't this page simply be called Renaming of Turkmen months and days of week? Why is the 2002 there, have they renamed it before?? ☺ Spiby ☻ 14:35, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

I wrote that article when i was quite new and green here on Wikipedia :)

I thought that it makes sense to pin down this article to a particular event in time, in case they ever decide to rename them again. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 15:53, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Actually, the 2002 is proper per WP:MoS, but convention is it should be in front, like 2008 New York Philharmonic visit to North Korea. I propose 2002 Renaming of Turkmen calendar or 2002 Renaming of Turkmen dating system, for a little brevity. Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 17:12, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Those titles might imply that there's a "Turkmen calendar" or "Turkmen dating system" substantially different from the Gregorian calendar, but there doesn't seem to be... AnonMoos (talk) 17:21, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

What about 2002 Renaming of Turkmen months and days of week? ☺ Spiby ☻ 11:03, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Turkmen go back to old calendar

Turkmenistan switches back to the traditional month names in April 2008, see BBC News. Joachim Krueger.--145.254.167.143 (talk) 12:07, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Sort weekdays correctly?

Because who the hell thinks sunday is the first day of the week? Thats just plain wrong ô_0 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.46.251.210 (talk) 07:23, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

Requested move 20 November 2019

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The result of the move request was: Consensus to move. (closed by non-admin page mover) SITH (talk) 11:42, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

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Renaming of Turkmen months and days of week, 2002 → 2002 renaming of Turkmen months and days of week – As previously discussed in 2008 (!), convention is that the year should go in front. O.N.R. ^(talk) 07:24, 20 November 2019 (UTC)

• Support per nom.--Ortizesp (talk) 21:29, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

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