Kazakh

Turkic14 million totalCyrillic/Latin

RegionKazakhstan

FamilyTurkic

Speakers14 million total

ScriptCyrillic/Latin

TypeAlphabetic

About Kazakh

The state language of Kazakhstan. Uses vowel harmony and long agglutinated words. Officially switching from Cyrillic to Latin by 2031. The steppe tradition of sung poetry with the dombra runs deep. Large communities also live in China and Mongolia.

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