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Kazakh  

Definition

  • Kazakh is a Turkic language belonging to the Kipchak (or North-Western Turkic) branch. Kazakh is primarily a Central Asian language and is spoken in Europe in the region between the lower Volga and the frontier of Kazakhstan.Today, Kazakh is written in Cyrillic in Kazakhstan and Mongolia, while the Kazakh-speakers in China use an Arabic-derived alphabet similar to that used to write Uyghur.

Identifier

  • KAZ

Notation

  • KAZ
  • kaz
  • KK
  • kk

In other languages

  • казахски

    Bulgarian

  • kazaški

    Croatian

  • kazaština

    Czech

  • kasakhisk

    Danish

  • Kazachs

    Dutch

  • Kazaks
  • kasahhi keel

    Estonian

  • kazakki

    Finnish

  • kazakh

    French

  • Kasachisch

    German

  • καζακικά

    Greek

  • kazah

    Hungarian

  • kazak
  • kasakska

    Icelandic

  • Casaicis

    Irish

  • kazako

    Italian

  • қазақша

    Kazakh

  • qazaqşa
  • kazahu valoda

    Latvian

  • kazachų kalba

    Lithuanian

  • казашки

    Macedonian

  • Każak

    Maltese

  • kasakhisk

    Norwegian

  • kazachski

    Polish

  • cazaque

    Portuguese

  • kazahă

    Romanian

  • казахский

    Russian

  • казахски

    Serbian

  • kazaški

    Serbo-Croatian

  • kazaština

    Slovak

  • kazaščina

    Slovenian

  • kazajo

    Spanish

  • kazakiska

    Swedish

  • kazakça

    Turkish

  • казахська мова

    Ukrainian

  • kazachšćina

    Upper Sorbian

URI

http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/KAZ

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