Languages of Kazakhstan
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| Languages of Kazakhstan | |
|---|---|
The Kazakh-speaking world:
regions where Kazakh is the language of the majority regions where Kazakh is the language of a significant minority | |
| Official languages | Kazakh (national/state language), Russian (official) |
| Main languages | Kazakh language. |
| Indigenous languages | Dialects of Kazakh language |
| Minority languages | Uzbek; Uyghur; Tatar; Kyrgyz; Azerbaijan; Korean; |
| Main immigrant languages | Turkic languages |
| Main foreign languages | English; Arabic (coming with Islam); Chinese; |
| Common keyboard layouts | |
| Source | Languages committee of the Ministry of culture and sports |
| Alphabet | Kazakh alphabets Kazakh Braille |
This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. (December 2014) |
The official languages of Kazakhstan are Kazakh with 5,290,000 speakers around the country and Russian which is spoken by 6,230,000 people. Both Kazakh and Russian are used on equal grounds.[1] German (30,400 speakers), Tajiki, Tatar (328,000 speakers), Turkish, Ukrainian (898,000 speakers), Uyghur (300,000 speakers),[2] and Uzbek are officially recognized by the 1997 Language Law, No. 151-1.[3][4] Other languages natively spoken in Kazakhstan are Dungan, Ili Turki, Ingush, Plautdietsch, and Sinte Romani.[5]
A number of more recent immigrant languages, such as Belarusian, Korean, Azeri, and Greek are also spoken.[6]
References[edit]
- ^ "Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan". Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Retrieved 9 December 2015.
- ^ "The Languages spoken in Kazakhstan". Studycountry. Retrieved 2017-08-11.
- ^ "Kazakhstan". Ethnologue. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
- ^ "О языках в Республике Казахстан". Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Retrieved 9 December 2015.
- ^ "Kazakhstan". Ethnologue. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
- ^ "Kazakhstan". Ethnologue. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
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