Countries
China, Kazakhstan, Russia
  
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
National Language
Gambia, Kazakhstan
  
Germany
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries, Republic of Brazil
  
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Afganistan, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, People's Republic of China, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
Regulated By
Kazakh language agency
  
Council for German Orthography
  
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.
  
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  
Similar To
Turkish and Uzbek Languages
  
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Albanian Languages
  
Alphabets in
Kazakh-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Сәлеметсіз бе (Sälemetsiz be)
  
hallo
  
Thank You
Рақмет сізге (Raqmet sizge)
  
Danke
  
How Are You?
Қалыңыз қалай? (Qalıñız qalay?)
  
Wie geht es dir?
  
Good Night
қайырлы түн (qayırlı tün)
  
gute Nacht
  
Good Evening
қайырлы кеш (qayırlı keş)
  
guten Abend
  
Good Afternoon
қайырлы күн (qayırlı kün)
  
guten Tag
  
Good Morning
қайырлы таң (qayırlı tañ)
  
guten Morgen
  
Please
өтінемін (ötinemin)
  
bitte
  
Sorry
кешіріңіз (keşiriñiz)
  
Verzeihung
  
Bye
bye
  
Tschüs
  
I Love You
Мен сені жақсы көремін (Men seni jaqsı köremin)
  
Ich liebe dich
  
Excuse Me
Кешіріңіз! (Keşiriñiz!)
  
Entschuldigung
  
Dialect 1
Northeastern Kazakh
  
Swiss German
  
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan
  
Switzerland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
4,500,000.00
  
18
Dialect 2
Southern Kazakh
  
Swabian German
  
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan
  
Germany
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Western Kazakh
  
Texas German
  
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan
  
Texas
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
11.00 million
  
99+
229.00 million
  
8
Native Speakers
11.00 million
  
99+
101.00 million
  
10
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
128.00 million
  
5
Native Name
Қазақ тілі / Qazaq tili / قازاق ٴتىلى
  
Deutsch
  
Alternative Names
Kaisak, Kazak, Kosach, Qazaq
  
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
French Name
kazakh
  
allemand
  
German Name
Kasachisch
  
Deutsch
  
Pronunciation
[qɑˈzɑq tɘˈlɘ]
  
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
Ethnicity
Kazahks
  
Germans
  
Origin
17th Century
  
6th Century AD
  
Language Family
Turkic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Turkic
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Northwestern (Kipchak)
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Kazakh
  
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed German
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
kk
  
de
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
kaz
  
deu
  
ISO 639 2/B
kaz
  
ger
  
ISO 639 3
kaz
  
deu
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
deus
  
Glottocode
kaza1248
  
high1287, uppe1397
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Fusional, Synthetic