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Language proficiency by age group. Kazakhstan is officially a bilingual country. Kazakh (part of the Kipchak sub-branch of the Turkic languages) is proficiently spoken by 80.1% of the population according to 2021 census, and has the status of "state language". Russian, on the other hand, is spoken by 83.7% as of 2021. [1]
Speakers of Kazakh (mainly Kazakhs) are spread over a vast territory from the Tian Shan to the western shore of the Caspian Sea.Kazakh is the official state language of Kazakhstan, with nearly 10 million speakers (based on information from the CIA World Factbook [6] on population and proportion of Kazakh speakers).
Russians are still an influential socio-political group in Kazakhstan, and they remain active in Kazakhstan's public, military, cultural and economic life. Although the Kazakh language is the state language, Russian is now also officially used as an equal language to Kazakh in Kazakhstan's public institutions.
Implementation: Legal proceedings in Kazakhstan are carried out in the Kazakh language. Russian and other languages are used only when necessary. The Constitutional Council of Kazakhstan, the Law "On Languages in the Republic of Kazakhstan" and other decisions of the authorities have given the Russian language a very high status in practice.
Until 2022 the popularity of Russian language was growing because of an increase in trade with and tourism from the Russia and other Russian-speaking countries and regions. [55] However after the year of 2022, various statistics show a notable decline in the popularity of Russian language in Finnish society.
Kazakh is a state (official) language in Kazakhstan. It is also spoken in the Ili region of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China, where the Arabic script is used, and in western parts of Mongolia (Bayan-Ölgii and Khovd province), where Cyrillic script is in use. European Kazakhs use the Latin alphabet.
Of all the languages of Russia, Russian, the most widely spoken language, is the only official language at the national level. There are 25 other official languages , which are used in different regions of Russia.
In 1994 some 10,000 people gathered for a rally in Öskemen, organized by the local Slavic Culture Society, demanding the establishment of a Russian autonomy in Eastern Kazakhstan, the elevation of the Russian language to the status of a state language, and the implementation of dual citizenship. In response, the presidential decree "On ...