Kyrgyz language
Kipchak Turkic language of Central Asia
Kyrgyz language is the official language of Kyrgyzstan and a branch of Turkic languages that most Kyrgyz people speak with. Kyrgyz is written with the Cyrillic alphabet, but can be written in the Arabic alphabet in Xinjiang, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.[2]
Kyrgyz language | |
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Native to | Kyrgyzstan (official), Afghanistan, Xinjiang (China), Tajikistan, Russia, Pakistan |
Native speakers | 4.3 million (2009 census)[1] |
Turkic
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-1 | ky |
ISO 639-2 | kir |
ISO 639-3 | kir |
Glottolog | kirg1245 |
Linguasphere | 44-AAB-cd |
References
change- ↑ Kyrgyz language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ "Kyrgyz language and alphabets".
Related pages
changeOther websites
change Kyrgyz edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- http://www.lmp.ucla.edu/Kyrgyz Archived 2011-06-05 at the Wayback Machine