Languages of Kazakhstan
| Languages of Kazakhstan | |
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 The Kazakh-speaking world: regions where Kazakh is the language of the majority regions where Kazakh is the language of a significant minority | |
| Official | Kazakh (national/state language), Russian (official) |
| Main | Kazakh language. |
| Indigenous | Dialects of Kazakh language |
| Minority | German; Uzbek; Uyghur; Tatar; Kyrgyz; Azerbaijan; Korean; |
| Immigrant | Turkic languages |
| Foreign | English; Arabic (coming with Islam); Chinese; |
| Keyboard layout | |
| Source | Languages committee of the Ministry of culture and sports |
| Alphabet | Kazakh alphabets Kazakh Braille |
130 ethnic groups live in Kazakhstan, including 65% Kazakhs, 21.8% Russians, 3.0% Uzbeks, 1.8% Ukrainians, 1.4% Uyghurs and 1.2% Tatars. The official languages of Kazakhstan are Kazakh and Russian. Both Kazakh and Russian are used on equal grounds.[1] German (30,400 speakers), Tajiki, Tatar (328,000 speakers), Turkish, Ukrainian (898,000 speakers), Uyghur (300,000 speakers),[2] and Uzbek are officially recognized by the 1997 Language Law, No. 151-1.[3]
Other languages natively spoken in Kazakhstan are Dungan, Ili Turki, Ingush, Plautdietsch, and Sinte Romani. A number of more recent immigrant languages, such as Belarusian, Korean, Azerbaijani, and Greek are also spoken.[4]
Languages[]
Per 2007 data:
| Language | Percentage | Script |
|---|---|---|
| Kazakh | 74 % [5] | Cyrillic, Latin |
| Russian | 84 % [6] | Cyrillic |
| Korean | Hangul | |
| German | Latin | |
| Polish | Latin | |
| Yiddish | Hebrew | |
| Ukrainian | Cyrillic | |
| Turkish | Latin | |
| Uzbek | Latin, Cyrillic | |
| Uyghur | Perso-Arabic, Latin |
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Article 7". Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Retrieved 9 December 2015.
- ^ "The Languages spoken in Kazakhstan". Studycountry. Retrieved 2017-08-11.
- ^ "О языках в Республике Казахстан". Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Archived from the original on 24 January 2018. Retrieved 9 December 2015.
- ^ "Kazakhstan". Ethnologue. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
- ^ "Мемлекеттін 70 % мемлекеттік тілде сөйлей алады — ukimet.kz". Archived from the original on 2013-01-18. Retrieved 2019-10-23.
- ^ [1][permanent dead link]
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