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Kazakh language

Kazakh
Қазақ тілі
qazaq tili
قازاق تىلى
Pronunciation [qɑˈzɑq tɘˈlɘ]
Native to Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia, Russia, Kyrgyzstan
Region Turkestan, Dzungaria, Anatolia, Khorasan, Fergana Valley
Native speakers
15 million (2016)
Turkic
Kazakh alphabets (Cyrillic, Latin, Perso-Arabic, Kazakh Braille)
Official status
Official language in

 Kazakhstan
 Russia

 China

Regulated by Kazakh language agency
Language codes
ISO 639-1 kk
ISO 639-2
ISO 639-3
Glottolog kaza1248
Linguasphere 44-AAB-cc
Idioma kazajo.png
The Kazakh-speaking world:
  regions where Kazakh is the language of the majority
  regions where Kazakh is the language of a significant minority
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 Kazakhstan
 Russia

 China

Kazakh (natively Қазақ тілі, Қазақша, Qazaq tili, Qazaqşa, قازاق ٴتىلى‎, قازاقشا‎; pronounced [qɑˈzɑq tɘˈlɘ]) is a Turkic language belonging to the Kipchak (or Northwestern Turkic) branch, closely related to Nogai, Kyrgyz, and especially Karakalpak. Kazakh is the official language of the Republic of Kazakhstan and a significant minority language in the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China and in the Bayan-Ölgii Province of Mongolia. Kazakh is also spoken by many ethnic Kazakhs through the former Soviet Union (approximately 500,000 in the Russian Federation according to the 2002 Russian Census), Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey, and Germany.


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