Kazakh language

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Turkic language agglutinative language natural language

The Kazakh language is a Turkic language spoken primarily in Kazakhstan and surrounding regions, written today mainly in Cyrillic but also in Latin and Arabic scripts.

Aliases (1)

Kazakh ×13

Statements (57)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Turkic language → agglutinative language → natural language →
closelyRelatedTo	Karakalpak language → Kyrgyz language → Kyrgyz–Kipchak subgroup → Nogai language →
family	Turkic language family →
hasCase	ablative case → accusative case → dative case → genitive case → instrumental case → locative case → nominative case →
historicalWritingSystem	Arabic script → Cyrillic script (since 1940) → Latin script (1929–1940) → Old Turkic script →
languageCodeISO639-1	kk →
languageCodeISO639-2	kaz →
languageCodeISO639-3	kaz →
morphologicalType	suffixing →
nativeTo	Altai Republic → Bayan-Ölgii Province → Kazakhstan → Xinjiang →
officialLanguageOf	Kazakhstan →
phonologicalFeature	consonant harmony → vowel harmony →
primaryCountry	Kazakhstan →
recognizedMinorityLanguageIn	Afghanistan → China → Mongolia → Russia → Turkmenistan → Uzbekistan →
regulator	Government of Kazakhstan → Kazakh Language National Commission →
scriptChangePolicy	transition from Cyrillic to Latin alphabet in Kazakhstan →
spokenIn	Afghanistan → China → Germany → Kazakhstan → Kyrgyzstan → Mongolia → Russia → Turkey → Turkmenistan → United States → Uzbekistan →
subclassOf	Common Turkic language → Kipchak language →
wordOrder	SOV →
writingSystem	Kazakh Arabic alphabet → Kazakh Cyrillic alphabet → Kazakh Latin alphabet →

Referenced by (18)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Transeurasian languages ("Kazakh") → Turkic languages ("Kazakh") → Turkic world ("Kazakh") →	hasMajorLanguage
Bashkir language → Tatar language →	closelyRelatedTo
Almaty ("Kazakh") → Karaganda ("Kazakh") →	languageMajority
Aktobe ("Kazakh") → Kazakhstan ("Kazakh") →	officialLanguage
Google Translate ("Kazakh") →	availableLanguage
World War I poetry ("Kazakh") →	hasLanguage
Kipchak languages →	includesLanguage
Kazakhs →	language
Government of Kazakhstan ("Kazakh") →	languageOfWork
Embassy of Kazakhstan in Washington, D.C. ("Kazakh") →	languageUsed
Xinjiang ("Kazakh") →	regionalLanguage
KAZ ("Kazakh") →	relatesToOfficialLanguageOfRepresentedCountry
Cyrillic script →	usedFor