Kyrgyz

E72799

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

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Kyrgyz canonical 52
Kyrgyz language 7
Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyz language 1

How this entity was disambiguated

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
Uzbekistan
officialLanguageOf Kyrgyzstan
primaryCountry Kyrgyzstan
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
Tajikistan
Uzbekistan
subfamily Kipchak branch
usedIn education in Kyrgyzstan
government in Kyrgyzstan
mass media in Kyrgyzstan
writingSystem Arabic script
Cyrillic script
Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (61)

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

Qipchaq Uzbek sharesFeaturesWith Kyrgyz
this entity surface form: Kyrgyz language
Chüy Region languageUsed Kyrgyz
Tokmok languageMajority Kyrgyz
Tup hasOfficialLanguage Kyrgyz
Kyzyl-Suu hasLanguage Kyrgyz