Countries
China, Kazakhstan, Russia
China
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Gambia, Kazakhstan
China
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
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Kazakh language agency
Working Committee of Ethnic Language and Writing of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
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.
- Uyghur language has large quantity of loan words from Persian, Russian and Chinese.
- Uyghur was originally written with the Orkhon Alphabets.
Similar To
Turkish and Uzbek Languages
Uzbek Language
Derived From
-
Gokturk Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2436
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
59
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1727
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Vertical, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
35
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Сәлеметсіз бе (Sälemetsiz be)
Ässalamu läykum.
Thank You
Рақмет сізге (Raqmet sizge)
rakhmat
How Are You?
Қалыңыз қалай? (Qalıñız qalay?)
Yakshimasiz? / Qandaq ahwalingiz?
Good Night
қайырлы түн (qayırlı tün)
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun
Good Evening
қайырлы кеш (qayırlı keş)
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
Good Afternoon
қайырлы күн (qayırlı kün)
تۆنۈگۈن خەير
Good Morning
қайырлы таң (qayırlı tañ)
Atiganlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
Please
өтінемін (ötinemin)
birdam
Sorry
кешіріңіз (keşiriñiz)
kachurung
Bye
bye
Khayr khosh
I Love You
Мен сені жақсы көремін (Men seni jaqsı köremin)
sizni yahshi kOrman
Excuse Me
Кешіріңіз! (Keşiriñiz!)
Kachurung
Dialect 1
Northeastern Kazakh
Turpan
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan
China
How Many People Speak
18,000,000.0010,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Southern Kazakh
Hotan
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan
China
How Many People Speak
18,000,000.0010,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Western Kazakh
Lop Nur
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan
China
How Many People Speak
18,000,000.0025,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
37
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
11.00 million10.40 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.17 %0.12 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
11.00 million8.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
18.00 million25.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Қазақ тілі / Qazaq tili / قازاق ٴتىلى
Уйғур /ئۇيغۇر (ujġgur / uyghur)
Alternative Names
Kaisak, Kazak, Kosach, Qazaq
Uighuir, Uighur, Uiguir, Uigur, Uygur, Weiwu’er, Wiga
French Name
kazakh
ouïgour
German Name
Kasachisch
Uigurisch
Pronunciation
[qɑˈzɑq tɘˈlɘ]
[ʊjʁʊrˈtʃɛ], [ʊjˈʁʊr tili]
Ethnicity
Kazahks
Uyghur
Origin
17th Century
11
Language Family
Turkic Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
Turkic
-
Branch
Northwestern (Kipchak)
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Karakhanid, Chagatai, Eastern Turki
Standard Forms
Kazakh
Uyghur
Language Position
9398
1
120
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Signed Forms
Kazakh Sign Language
Signed Uyghur
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
kk
ug
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kaz
uig
ISO 639 2/B
kaz
uig
ISO 639 3
kaz
uig
ISO 639 6
kaz
uig
Glottocode
kaza1248
uigh1240
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
-