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Countries

Countries
China, Kazakhstan, Russia

Total No. Of Countries
3 12

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
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Alphabets
24 6

Phonology

How Many Vowels
5 2

How Many Consonants
17 7

Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic

Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
3 2

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks 17

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 31

Dialect 2
Southern Kazakh

Where They Speak
Kazakhstan

How Many People Speak
18,000,000.00 28

Dialect 3
Western Kazakh

Where They Speak
Kazakhstan

How Many People Speak
18,000,000.00 25

Total No. Of Dialects
3 3

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
11.00 million 51

Speaking Population
0.17 % 50

Native Speakers
11.00 million 45

Second Language Speakers
18.00 million 32

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
93 72

Signed Forms
Kazakh Sign Language

Scope
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1
kk

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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