Kyrgyz language

Kyrgyz language
Kyrgyz language
Native to	Kyrgyzstan (official), Afghanistan, Xinjiang (China), Tajikistan, Russia, Pakistan
Native speakers	4.3 million (2009 census)
Language family	Turkic Common Turkic Kipchak Kyrgyz–Kipchak Kyrgyz language; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-1	ky
ISO 639-2	kir
ISO 639-3	kir
Glottolog	kirg1245
Linguasphere	44-AAB-cd
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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]

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