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Kazakh language

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Kazakh (also Qazaq and variants[2], natively Qazaq tili, Қазақ тілі, قازاق ٴتىلى‎; pronounced [qɑzɑq tˈlə]) is a Turkic language closely related to Nogai and Karakalpak.
Kazakh is an agglutinative language, and it employs vowel harmony.

Kazakh

Qazaq tili, Қазақ тілі, قازاق تىلى‎
Pronunciation:    [qɑzɑq tˈlə]
Spoken in:    Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Russia, Iran
Region:    Central Asia
Total speakers:    22 million
Ranking:    60
Language family:    Altaic[1] (controversial)
Turkic
Kypchak
Kypchak-Nogay
Kazakh

Writing system:

Cyrillic alphabet, Latin alphabet, Arabic alphabet
Official status
Official language in:     Kazakhstan
Regulated by:    No official regulation
Language codes
ISO 639-1:    kk
ISO 639-2:    kaz
ISO 639-3:    kaz

Area with significant Kazakh-speaking population
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode.

Kazakh alphabet

The Kazakh alphabets are the alphabets used to write the Kazakh language. The Kazakh language uses the following alphabets:
The Cyrillic alphabet is officially used in the Republic of Kazakhstan and Bayan-Ölgiy Province in Mongolia. It is also used by native Kazakh populations belonging to the areas of Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, as well as diasporas in other countries of the former USSR. It was introduced by the Soviet Union in 1940.
The Arabic alphabet is officially used in People’s Republic of China in the Altay Prefecture and the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. It is also used in Iran and Afghanistan. This is a modified script based on the alphabet used for Kazakh before 1927.
A Latin alphabet based on the Turkish alphabet is unofficially used by the Kazakh diaspora in Turkey. The Kazakh diaspora also uses a surrogate Latin alphabet in Germany, the USA and in other Western countries. As with other Central Asian Turkic languages, a Latin alphabet was introduced by the Soviets and used from 1927 to 1940 when it was replaced with Cyrillic.

Correspondence chart

Correspondence chart of official and most widespread writing scripts
Cyrillic    Latin
(by QazAqparat)    Arabic    Name of Arabic Letter    IPA transcription
А а    A a    ا    Alif    /ɑ/
Ә ә    Ä ä    ٴا    Hamza + Alif    /æ/
Б б    B b    ب    Ba    /b/
В в    V v    ۆ    Waw with V    /v/
Г г    G g    گ    Gaf    /ɡ/
Ғ ғ    Ğ ğ    ع    Ghayin    /ʁ/
Д д    D d    د    Dal    /d/
Е е    E e    ه    Ha    /e/
Ё ё    Yo yo    يو    Yo    /jo/
Ж ж    J j    ج    Jeem    /ʒ/
З з    Z z    ز    Za    /z/
И и    Ï ï    ي    Ya    /ɯj/, /ɪj/
Й й    Y y    ي    Ya    /j/
К к    K k    ك    Kaf    /k/
Қ қ    Q q    ق    Qaf    /q/
Л л    L l    ل    Lam    /l/
М м    M m    م    Meem    /m/
Н н    N n    ن    Noon    /n/
Ң ң    Ñ ñ    ڭ    Kaf with 3 dots    /ŋ/
О о    O o    و    Waw    /o/
Ө ө    Ö ö    وٴ    Hamza + Waw    /ø/
П п    P p    پ    Pa    /p/
Р р    R r    ر    Ra    /r/
С с    S s    س    Seen    /s/
Т т    T t    ت    Ta    /t/
У у    W w    ۋ    Waw with 3 dots    /w/, /ʊw/, /ʉw/
Ұ ұ    U u    وُ    Waw with damma    /ʊ/
Ү ү    Ü ü    ٴوُ    Hamza + Waw with damma    /ʉ/
Ф ф    F f    ف    Fa    /f/
Х х    X x    ح    Kha without dots    /x, χ/
Һ һ    H h    ھ    Initial Ha    /h/
Ц ц    C c    تس    T + S    /ʦ/
Ч ч    Ç ç    چ    Cheem    /ʧ/
Ш ш    Ş ş    ش    Sheen    /ʃ/
Щ щ    Şş şş    شش    Sh + Sh    /ʃtʃ/, /ʃː/
Ъ ъ    (ʺ)    –    –    –
Ы ы    I ı    ى    Ya without dots    /ɯ/
І і    İ i    ٴى    Hamza + Ya without dots    /ɪ/
Ь ь    (ʹ)    –    –    –
Э э    Ee (Éé)    ه    Ha    /e/
Ю ю    Yu yu    يۋ    Y + U    /jʉw/, /jʊw/
Я я    Ya ya    يا    Y + A    /jɑ/