Countries
China, Kazakhstan, Russia
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
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
Not Available
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
Kazakh-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Southern Kazakh
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan
  
Olonets
  
Dialect 3
Western Kazakh
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak?
11.00 million
  
99+
276.00 million
  
6
Native Speakers
11.00 million
  
99+
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
110.00 million
  
7
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
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
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
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
kaza1248
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Fusional, Synthetic