Countries
China, Kazakhstan, Russia
European Union, Latvia
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
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National Language
Gambia, Kazakhstan
Latvia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries, Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Afganistan, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, People's Republic of China, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Kazakh language agency
Latvian State Language Center
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.
- The first written form of Latvian dates from 16th century was found in religious texts.
- The old latvian language was based on the a Gothic script.
Similar To
Turkish and Uzbek Languages
Lithuanian Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2433
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
59
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1724
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic
Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Сәлеметсіз бе (Sälemetsiz be)
Sveiki
Thank You
Рақмет сізге (Raqmet sizge)
Paldies
How Are You?
Қалыңыз қалай? (Qalıñız qalay?)
Kā jums klājas?
Good Night
қайырлы түн (qayırlı tün)
Ar labunakti
Good Evening
қайырлы кеш (qayırlı keş)
Labvakar
Good Afternoon
қайырлы күн (qayırlı kün)
Labdien
Good Morning
қайырлы таң (qayırlı tañ)
Labrīt
Please
өтінемін (ötinemin)
lūdzu
Sorry
кешіріңіз (keşiriñiz)
Piedodiet!
Bye
bye
Uz redzēšanos
I Love You
Мен сені жақсы көремін (Men seni jaqsı köremin)
Es tevi mīlu
Excuse Me
Кешіріңіз! (Keşiriñiz!)
Piedodiet!
Dialect 1
Northeastern Kazakh
Livonian
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan
Latvia
How Many People Speak
18,000,000.001,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Southern Kazakh
Middle Latvian
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan
Latvia
How Many People Speak
18,000,000.002,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Western Kazakh
High Latvian
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan
France, Latvia
How Many People Speak
18,000,000.001,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
11.00 million1.75 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.17 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
11.00 million1.75 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
18.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Қазақ тілі / Qazaq tili / قازاق ٴتىلى
latviešu valoda
Alternative Names
Kaisak, Kazak, Kosach, Qazaq
Lettish
French Name
kazakh
letton
German Name
Kasachisch
Lettisch
Pronunciation
[qɑˈzɑq tɘˈlɘ]
[ˈlætviən]
Ethnicity
Kazahks
Latvians or Letts
Origin
17th Century
1530
Language Family
Turkic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Turkic
Baltic
Branch
Northwestern (Kipchak)
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kazakh
Latvian
Language Position
939
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kazakh Sign Language
Latvian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
kk
lv
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kaz
lav
ISO 639 2/B
kaz
lav
ISO 639 3
kaz
lav
ISO 639 6
kaz
lav
Glottocode
kaza1248
latv1249
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Synthetic