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)
Language family	Turkic Common Turkic Kipchak Kipchak–Nogai Kazakh
Writing system	Kazakh alphabets (Cyrillic, Latin, Perso-Arabic, Kazakh Braille)
Official status
Official language in	Kazakhstan  Russia  Altai Republic  China Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture
Regulated by	Kazakh language agency
Language codes
ISO 639-1	kk
ISO 639-2
ISO 639-3
Glottolog	kaza1248
Linguasphere	44-AAB-cc
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.