Kazakh | |
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qazaqşa or qazaq tılı қазақша or қазақ тілі قازاقشا or قازاق تىلى | |
Pronunciation | qɑzɑqˈɕɑ qɑˈzɑq tɘlɘ |
Native to | Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia, Altai Republic (Russia), Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Iran, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Serbia, Romania, Greece, Moldova, Ukraine, Bulgaria |
Region | Central Asia (Turkestan) |
Ethnicity | Kazakhs |
Native speakers | 22 million (2019)[1] |
Turkic
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Kazakh alphabets (Latin script, Cyrillic script, Arabic script, Kazakh Braille) | |
Official status | |
Official language in | Kazakhstan Altai Republic[2]
Organisations: |
Regulated by | Kazakh language agency |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-1 | kk |
ISO 639-2 | kaz |
ISO 639-3 | kaz |
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 | |
Kazakh is a Turkic language that is mostly spoken in Kazakhstan, a country in Central Asia. It, along with Russian, is one of Kazakhstan's official languages.[3]