Languages of Kazakhstan | |
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![]() The Kazakh-speaking world: regions where Kazakh is the language of the majority regions where Kazakh is the language of a significant minority | |
Official | Kazakh (national/state language), Russian (official) |
Main | Kazakh language |
Minority | German, Korean, Kyrgyz, Tatar, Uyghur, Uzbek, Yiddish |
Immigrant | Polish, Turkish, Ukrainian |
Keyboard layout | |
Source | Languages committee of the Ministry of culture and sports |
Alphabet | Kazakh alphabets Kazakh Braille |
Around 130 ethnic groups live in Kazakhstan, including 65% Kazakhs, 21.8% Russians, 3.0% Uzbeks, 1.8% Ukrainians, 1.4% Uyghurs and 1.2% Tatars. The official languages of Kazakhstan are Kazakh and Russian. 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]
Other languages natively spoken in Kazakhstan are Dungan, Ili Turki, Ingush, Plautdietsch, and Sinte Romani. A number of more recent immigrant languages, such as Belarusian, Korean, Azerbaijani, and Greek are also spoken.[4]
Languages
Per 2007 data:
Language | % | Script |
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Kazakh | 74[5] | Cyrillic, Latin |
Russian | 89[6] | Cyrillic |
Korean | Hangul | |
German | Latin | |
Polish | Latin | |
Yiddish | Hebrew | |
Ukrainian | Cyrillic | |
Turkish | Latin | |
Uzbek | Latin, Cyrillic | |
Uyghur | Perso-Arabic, Latin |
See also
References
- ^ "Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Article 7". Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Retrieved 9 December 2015.
- ^ "The Languages spoken in Kazakhstan". Studycountry. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
- ^ "О языках в Республике Казахстан". Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Archived from the original on 24 January 2018. Retrieved 9 December 2015.
- ^ "Kazakhstan". Ethnologue. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
- ^ "Мемлекеттін 70 % мемлекеттік тілде сөйлей алады — ukimet.kz". Archived from the original on 18 January 2013. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
- ^ [1][permanent dead link]