Kyrgyz

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Kyrgyz is a Turkic language primarily spoken in Kyrgyzstan and surrounding regions of Central Asia.

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Observed surface forms (3)


Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Turkic language
agglutinative language
natural language
basicWordOrder SOV
belongsToMacroFamily Altaic languages (proposed)
surface form: Altaic hypothesis (disputed)
closelyRelatedTo Karakalpak
Kazakhs
surface form: Kazakh

Nogai
hasCaseSystem yes
hasMorphologyType suffixing
hasNumberCategory plural
singular
hasPhonologicalFeature vowel length distinctions (in some dialects)
hasStandardForm Kyrgyz self-linksurface differs
surface form: Standard Kyrgyz
hasTenseCategory future
past
present
hasVowelHarmony yes
historicalScript Arabic alphabet
surface form: Arabic script

Latin script
ISO639-1Code ky
ISO639-2Code kir
ISO639-3Code kir
isOfficialLanguage yes
languageCode ky-KG
languageFamily Turkic
minorityLanguageIn Afghanistan
China
Tajikistan NERFINISHED
Uzbekistan NERFINISHED
officialLanguageOf Kyrgyzstan NERFINISHED
primaryCountry Kyrgyzstan NERFINISHED
region Central Asia
regulatingBody National Commission on State Language of Kyrgyzstan
scriptReform Cyrillic-based orthography in Soviet period
spokenBy Kyrgyz people
spokenIn Afghanistan
China
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan NERFINISHED
Tajikistan NERFINISHED
Uzbekistan NERFINISHED
subfamily Kipchak branch
usedIn education in Kyrgyzstan
government in Kyrgyzstan
mass media in Kyrgyzstan
writingSystem Arabic script
Cyrillic script
Latin script

Referenced by (29)

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

Tengrism associatedPeople Kyrgyz
this entity surface form: Kyrgyz language
Xinjiang ethnicGroup Kyrgyz
tunduk etymologyLanguage Kyrgyz
this entity surface form: Kyrgyz language
Kyrgyz hasStandardForm Kyrgyz self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Standard Kyrgyz
this entity surface form: Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyz language
Ferghana Valley language Kyrgyz
Issyk-Kul Region language Kyrgyz
Kok-boru languageOfName Kyrgyz
.kg languageOfRegistration Kyrgyz
Issyk-Kul nameLanguage Kyrgyz
Bishkek officialLanguage Kyrgyz
Kazakhs relatedEthnicGroup Kyrgyz
Uyghurs relatedEthnicGroup Kyrgyz
Kipchak languages spokenBy Kyrgyz