Countries
China, Kazakhstan, Russia
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
34
0
46
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National Language
Gambia, Kazakhstan
Russia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries, Republic of Brazil
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Afganistan, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, People's Republic of China, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Kazakh language agency
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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.
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
Similar To
Turkish and Uzbek Languages
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
-
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2433
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
510
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1721
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Сәлеметсіз бе (Sälemetsiz be)
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
Рақмет сізге (Raqmet sizge)
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
Қалыңыз қалай? (Qalıñız qalay?)
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
қайырлы түн (qayırlı tün)
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
қайырлы кеш (qayırlı keş)
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
қайырлы күн (qayırlı kün)
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
қайырлы таң (qayırlı tañ)
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
өтінемін (ötinemin)
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
кешіріңіз (keşiriñiz)
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
Мен сені жақсы көремін (Men seni jaqsı köremin)
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Кешіріңіз! (Keşiriñiz!)
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Northeastern Kazakh
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
How Many People Speak
18,000,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Southern Kazakh
Olonets
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan
Olonets
How Many People Speak
18,000,000.00154,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Western Kazakh
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan
Novgorod
How Many People Speak
18,000,000.00154,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
313
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
11.00 million276.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.17 %2.33 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
11.00 million166.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
18.00 million110.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Қазақ тілі / Qazaq tili / قازاق ٴتىلى
Русский
Alternative Names
Kaisak, Kazak, Kosach, Qazaq
Russki
French Name
kazakh
russe
German Name
Kasachisch
Russisch
Pronunciation
[qɑˈzɑq tɘˈlɘ]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Kazahks
Russians
Origin
17th Century
1000 AD
Language Family
Turkic Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
Turkic
Slavic
Branch
Northwestern (Kipchak)
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Kazakh
Standard Russian
Language Position
937
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kazakh Sign Language
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
kk
ru
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kaz
rus
ISO 639 2/B
kaz
rus
ISO 639 3
kaz
rus
ISO 639 6
kaz
rus
Glottocode
kaza1248
russ1263
Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-ea
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional, Synthetic