Kazakh language

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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.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Kazakh 36
Kazakh language canonical 22

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Statements (57)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Turkic language
agglutinative language
natural language
closelyRelatedTo Karakalpak language
Kyrgyz language
Kipchak languages
surface form: Kyrgyz–Kipchak subgroup

Kipchak languages
surface form: Nogai language
family Turkic languages
surface form: Turkic language family
hasCase ablative case
accusative case
dative case
genitive case
instrumental case
locative case
nominative case
historicalWritingSystem Arabic alphabet
surface form: 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 of America
surface form: United States

Uzbekistan
subclassOf Common Turkic language
Kipchak languages
surface form: Kipchak language
wordOrder SOV
writingSystem Kazakh Arabic alphabet
Cyrillic script
surface form: Kazakh Cyrillic alphabet

Kazakh Latin alphabet

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Referenced by (58)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

connected to Oral (Uralsk) hasLanguage Kazakh language
subject surface form: Oral
this entity surface form: Kazakh
Turkic aspectology appliesTo Kazakh language
Yandex Search availableIn Kazakh language
Köroghlu languageOfTradition Kazakh language
this entity surface form: Kazakh
Qipchaq Uzbek sharesFeaturesWith Kazakh language
Junggar languageUsed Kazakh language
this entity surface form: Kazakh
Ministry of Defence of Kazakhstan languageOfWork Kazakh language
this entity surface form: Kazakh
Kazakh Naval Forces hasLanguage Kazakh language
this entity surface form: Kazakh