Kazakh leid

Kazakh
	Kazak
	қазақша or қазақ тілі; قازاقشا‎ or قازاق تئلئ‎; qazaqsha or qazaq tili
Pronunciation	[qɑzɑqˈɕɑ]; [qɑˈzɑq tɪˈlɪ]
Native tae	Kazakhstan, Cheenae, Roushie, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan
Region	Central Asie; (Turkestan)
Ethnicity	Kazakhs
Native speakers	11.7 million (2009); 21 million
Leid faimily	Turkic Common Turkic Kipchak Kipchak–Nogai Kazakh; ; ; ;
Writin seestem	Kazakh alphabets (Laitin, Cyrillic script, Arabic script, Kazakh Braille)
Offeecial status
Offeecial leid in	Kazakhstan; Roushie Altai Republic; Cheenae Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture;
Regulatit bi	Kazakh leid agency
Leid codes
ISO 639-1	kk
ISO 639-2	kaz
ISO 639-3	kaz
Glottolog	kaza1248
Linguasphere	44-AAB-cc
	The Kazakh-speakin warld: regions whaur Kazakh is the leid o the majority regions whaur Kazakh is the leid o a signeeficant minority
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Kazakh (an aa Qazaq an variants^[4], natively Qazaq tili, Қазақ тілі, قازاق ٴتىلى‎; pronoonced [qɑzɑq tˈlə]) is a Turkic leid closely relatit tae Kyrgyz an Karakalpak.

Kazakh is an agglutinative leid, an it employs vowel harmony.

Geographic distribution

The Kazakh leid haes its speakers (mainly Kazakhs) spread ower a vast territory frae the Tian Shan muntains tae the Ural muntains. Kazakh is the offeecial state leid o Kazakhstan, in which nearly 10 million speakers are reportit tae live (based on the CIA Warld Factbuik's estimates for population an percentage o Kazakh speakers). Mair nor a million speakers reside in Cheenae's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.The 2002 Roushie Census reportit 560,000 Kazakh speakers in Roushie.Ither sizable populations o Kazakh speakers live in Mongolie (fewer than 200,000). Lairge numbers exist elsewhaur in Central Asie (maistly in Uzbekistan) an the umwhile Soviet Union, an in Afghanistan an ither kintras. Thare are an aa some Kazakh speakers in Germany who immigratit frae Turkey in the 1970s.

References

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Kazakh
Kazak
қазақша or қазақ тілі قازاقشا‎ or قازاق تئلئ‎ qazaqsha or qazaq tili
Pronunciation	[qɑzɑqˈɕɑ] [qɑˈzɑq tɪˈlɪ]
Native tae	Kazakhstan, Cheenae, Roushie, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan
Region	Central Asie (Turkestan)
Ethnicity	Kazakhs
Native speakers	11.7 million^[1] (2009) 21 million
Leid faimily	Turkic Common Turkic Kipchak Kipchak–Nogai Kazakh
Writin seestem	Kazakh alphabets (Laitin, Cyrillic script, Arabic script, Kazakh Braille)
Offeecial status
Offeecial leid in	Kazakhstan Roushie Altai Republic^[2] Cheenae Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture
Regulatit bi	Kazakh leid agency
Leid codes
ISO 639-1	`kk`
ISO 639-2	`kaz`
ISO 639-3	`kaz`
Glottolog	`kaza1248`^[3]
Linguasphere	`44-AAB-cc`
The Kazakh-speakin warld: regions whaur Kazakh is the leid o the majority regions whaur Kazakh is the leid o a signeeficant minority
This article contains IPA phonetic seembols. Withoot proper renderin support, ye mey see quaisten merks, boxes, or ither seembols insteid o Unicode chairacters. For an introductory guide on IPA seembols, see Help:IPA.