About Kazakh Language | Kazakh | Alphabets in Kazakh

Countries

China, Kazakhstan, Russia

Total No. Of Countries

Rank: 12 (Overall)

0 46

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National Language

Gambia, Kazakhstan

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries, Republic of Brazil

Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe

Minority Language

Afganistan, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, People's Republic of China, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan

Regulated By

Kazakh language agency

Interesting Facts

The Kazakh language can be written using a variety of scripts.
Kazakh Language contains many words from Russian, Arabic, Mongol, Persian and other Turkic languages.

Similar To

Turkish and Uzbek Languages

Derived From

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

Rank: 6 (Overall)

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

Rank: 2 (Overall)

0 32

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How Many Consonants

Rank: 7 (Overall)

9 60

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Scripts

Arabic, Cyrillic

Writing Direction

Right-To-Left, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Rank: 2 (Overall)

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks

Rank: 17 (Overall)

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

Сәлеметсіз бе (Sälemetsiz be)

Thank You

Рақмет сізге (Raqmet sizge)

How Are You?

Қалыңыз қалай? (Qalıñız qalay?)

Good Night

қайырлы түн (qayırlı tün)

Good Evening

қайырлы кеш (qayırlı keş)

Good Afternoon

қайырлы күн (qayırlı kün)

Good Morning

қайырлы таң (qayırlı tañ)

Please

өтінемін (ötinemin)

Sorry

кешіріңіз (keşiriñiz)

Bye

bye

I Love You

Мен сені жақсы көремін (Men seni jaqsı köremin)

Excuse Me

Кешіріңіз! (Keşiriñiz!)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Northeastern Kazakh

Where They Speak

Kazakhstan

How Many People Speak

18,000,000.00

Rank: 31 (Overall)

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Southern Kazakh

Where They Speak

Kazakhstan

How Many People Speak

18,000,000.00

Rank: 28 (Overall)

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Western Kazakh

Where They Speak

Kazakhstan

How Many People Speak

18,000,000.00

Rank: 25 (Overall)

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

Rank: 3 (Overall)

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

11.00 million

Rank: 51 (Overall)

0 1200

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Speaking Population

0.17 %

Rank: 50 (Overall)

0 89

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Native Speakers

11.00 million

Rank: 45 (Overall)

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

18.00 million

Rank: 32 (Overall)

0.01 400

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Native Name

Қазақ тілі / Qazaq tili / قازاق ٴتىلى

Alternative Names

Kaisak, Kazak, Kosach, Qazaq

French Name

kazakh

German Name

Kasachisch

Pronunciation

[qɑˈzɑq tɘˈlɘ]

Ethnicity

Kazahks

History

Origin

17th Century

Language Family

Turkic Family

Subgroup

Turkic

Branch

Northwestern (Kipchak)

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms

Standard Forms

Kazakh

Language Position

Rank: 72 (Overall)

1 120

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Signed Forms

Kazakh Sign Language

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

kaz

ISO 639 2/B

kaz

ISO 639 3

kaz

ISO 639 6

kaz

Glottocode

kaza1248

Linguasphere

No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative

Know Alphabets in Kazakh

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Kazakh Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Kazakh Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Kazakh. Kazakh phonology gives Kazakh vowels and Kazakh consonants. There are 5 vowels and 17 consonants in Kazakh language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Kazakh is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Kazakh language is given in detail in this section.

All Kazakh countries

Want to explore all Kazakh countries? About Kazakh language serves you with all Kazakh Speaking Countries. Countries that use Kazakh as official language are called as Kazakh countries.

Countries that use Kazakh as their National Language are: Gambia, Kazakhstan.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

Countries that use Kazakh as second language are: Kazakh is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Learn Kazakh greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Kazakh Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Kazakh language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Kazakh language.Learn Kazakh greetings that can be used in formal situations:

Hello: Сәлеметсіз бе (Sälemetsiz be)
Thank you: Рақмет сізге (Raqmet sizge)
Good Morning: қайырлы таң (qayırlı tañ)
Good Evening: қайырлы кеш (qayırlı keş)
Good Afternoon: қайырлы күн (qayırlı kün)

All Kazakh Language Codes

Get to know all Kazakh language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Kazakh Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.