Countries
China, Kazakhstan, Russia
China, Mongolia
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
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National Language
Gambia, Kazakhstan
China, Mongolia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries, Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
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
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
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.
- Mongolian was first written using Phagspa script in late 13th century.
- There is no connection between Mongolian, Japanese and Korean, but still in terms of grammar and sentence structure they are very similar.
Similar To
Turkish and Uzbek Languages
Turkish Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2435
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
513
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1720
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Сәлеметсіз бе (Sälemetsiz be)
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
Thank You
Рақмет сізге (Raqmet sizge)
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
How Are You?
Қалыңыз қалай? (Qalıñız qalay?)
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
Good Night
қайырлы түн (qayırlı tün)
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
Good Evening
қайырлы кеш (qayırlı keş)
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
Good Afternoon
қайырлы күн (qayırlı kün)
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
Good Morning
қайырлы таң (qayırlı tañ)
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
Please
өтінемін (ötinemin)
Хэрэв (Kherev)
Sorry
кешіріңіз (keşiriñiz)
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
Bye
bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
I Love You
Мен сені жақсы көремін (Men seni jaqsı köremin)
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
Excuse Me
Кешіріңіз! (Keşiriñiz!)
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
Dialect 1
Northeastern Kazakh
Khalkha Mongolian
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
18,000,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Southern Kazakh
Ordos Mongolian
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
18,000,000.00123,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Western Kazakh
Khorchin Mongolian
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
18,000,000.005,700,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
38
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
11.00 million5.70 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.17 %0.14 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
11.00 million5.70 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
18.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Қазақ тілі / Qazaq tili / قازاق ٴتىلى
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
Alternative Names
Kaisak, Kazak, Kosach, Qazaq
Khalkha, Buryat, Oirat
French Name
kazakh
mongol
German Name
Kasachisch
Mongolisch
Pronunciation
[qɑˈzɑq tɘˈlɘ]
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
Ethnicity
Kazahks
Mongols
Origin
17th Century
1224-1225
Language Family
Turkic Family
Mongolic family
Subgroup
Turkic
Mongolian
Branch
Northwestern (Kipchak)
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Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
Standard Forms
Kazakh
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Language Position
9326
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kazakh Sign Language
Mongolian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
kk
mn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kaz
mon
ISO 639 2/B
kaz
mon
ISO 639 3
kaz
mon
ISO 639 6
kaz
mon
Glottocode
kaza1248
mong1331
Linguasphere
No data available
part of 44-BAA-b
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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