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Language Information

Kazakh is spoken principally in the Kazakh S.S.R. of the Soviet Union, which stretches from the Chinese border to the Caspian Sea, and whose capital is Alma-Ata. There it is spoken by about 4 million peo~e, with another one million in the rest of the Soviet Union, about 500,000 across the border in China, and some 50,000 in Mongolia. Kazakh is one of the Turkic languages for which the Cyrillic alphabet was introduced just prior to World War II.

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Kazakh is spoken/used in the following countries:

Language Family
Altaic
Subgroup
Turkic
Branch
Northwestern (Kipchak)

Kazakh Language Sample

Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 1

Kazakh

Барлық адамдар тумысынан азат және қадір‐қасиеті мен кұқықтары тең болып дүниеге келеді. Адамдарға ақыл‐парасат, ар‐ождан берілген, сондықтан олар бір‐бірімен туыстық, бауырмалдық қарым‐қатынас жасаулары тиіс.

English translation

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

Source: OHCHR translations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights