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Renaming of Turkmen months and days of week

Renaming of Turkmen months and days of week is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Renaming of Turkmen months and days of week rather than just read about it. In short: On 10 August 2002, the government of Turkmenistan adopted a law to rename all the months and most of the days of the week. The names were chosen according to Turkmen national symbols, as described in the Ruhnama, a book written by Saparmurat Niyazov, Turkmenistan's first and only president for life.

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Reference excerpt

On 10 August 2002, the government of Turkmenistan adopted a law to rename all the months and most of the days of the week. The names were chosen according to Turkmen national symbols, as described in the Ruhnama, a book written by Saparmurat Niyazov, Turkmenistan's first and only president for life. According to Arto Halonen's documentary film The Shadow of the Holy Book, Turkish businessman Ahmet Çalık came up with the idea to rename the months, as he was trying to befriend Niyazov to expand his business in the country. After the law was passed, the new names were used in all Turkmen state-owned media. Publications in languages other than Turkmen often used the new names too, especially those that were targeted at Russian-speaking citizens of Turkmenistan, with the old name sometimes written in brackets. The old month names were still used in popular speech, however. Four years after the change, Niyazov died in 2006. On 23 April 2008, it was reported that the cabinet of ministers of Turkmenistan discussed restoring the old names of the months and weekdays. The old names were restored in July 2008. The original Roman calendar month names were borrowed from Russian, itself derived from Latin. The adopted Turkmen month names were as follows:

The original names of the days of the week come from Persian. The adopted names were as follows:

See also Gregorian calendar Hebrew calendar Islamic calendar

References

External links The months of the Gregorian (Christian) calendar in various languages The days of the week in various languages Бердымухамедов велел вернуть старый календарь, Аркадий Дубнов, gundogar.org, 2008-04-25 Archived 9 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Renaming of Turkmen months and days of week

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Renaming of Turkmen months and days of week claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Renaming of Turkmen months and days of week before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Renaming of Turkmen months and days of week ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Renaming of Turkmen months and days of week

In research: Renaming of Turkmen months and days of week appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Renaming of Turkmen months and days of week in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Renaming of Turkmen months and days of week is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 2002 in Turkmenistan, Culture of Turkmenistan, Days of the week, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Renaming of Turkmen months and days of week outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Frequently asked questions

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Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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