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Kazak, likewise Kazakh & Qazaq (Қазақ тілі, Qazaq tilî) occurs as Turkic language with ISO 639 codes of kaz and kk.

These are a official language of Kazakhstan, and is likewise spoken traditionally inside Afghanistan, China, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. Germany has some Kazak speakers in the 2nd half of the 20th century & forward. Which are actually principally descendent of the Volga Germans who were deported to Kazakhstan, mixed by using a local people & late returned to Germany.

There are about Octad.Five million native speakers about the world. These are written using the Cyrillic, the Latin (Turkey), and limited Arabic (China, Iran, Afghanistan) scripts.

A Kazak Cyrillic script is according to a Russian alphabet with 9 extra letters: Ә, Ғ, Қ, Ң, Ө, Ұ, Ү, Һ, İ.

Understand likewise: Kazakh, Languages of China

Reference

[http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=KAZ This language's entry] in the Ethnologue.

Kazakh Lessons
Sample lesson from the University of Arizona's Critical Languages CD-ROM series, by Ablahat Ibrahim.

Kazakh Profile
Profile of the Kazak language, from the University of California's Language Materials Project.

Kazakh Words and Phrases
Basic selection of expressions for parents adopting a Kazak child (in an English phonetic rendering).

Kazakh Textbook
Sample of the "Kazakh Textbook: Beginning and Intermediate" (PDF).

Kazakh Language
Sources for learning Kazak, word lists, and names for families adopting Kazakh-speaking children.

Kazanovitsa
Downloadable Kazak-Russian and Russian-Kazak glossary in adapted Cyrillic transcription [requires Pop-up Dictionary].

Can you Speak Kazak?
Handful of Kazak words with English translations and illustrations.


Regional: Asia: Kazakhstan
Science: Social Sciences: Linguistics: Languages: Natural: Altaic: Turkic: Kypchak Languages





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