Kyrgyz language
language spoken in Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyz language is the official language of Kyrgyzstan and a branch of Turkic languages that most Kyrgyz people speak with.
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 [2] |
Linguasphere | 44-AAB-cd |
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ Kyrgyz language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kirghiz". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.