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This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Kazakh on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Kazakh in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
BGN/PCGN [A] romanization system for Kazakh is a method for romanization of Cyrillic Kazakh texts, that is, their transliteration into the Latin alphabet as used in the English language. The BGN/PCGN system for transcribing Kazakh was designed to be relatively intuitive for anglophones to pronounce.
A 1902 Kazakh text in both Arabic and Cyrillic script. Arabic and Latin script Kazakh alphabets in 1924. The Kazakh language is written in three scripts – Old Turkic, Cyrillic, Latin, and Arabic – each having a distinct alphabet.
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).
Apart from ⠽ і, which once existed in Russian Braille and ⠬ ұ, which is the same as the ў of Belarusian Braille (a letter which was used in earlier Kazakh alphabets with the same value), the braille values assigned to the extra Kazakh letters do not follow the assignments of other languages that use the Cyrillic script in print.
Transliteration, which adapts written form without altering the pronunciation when spoken out, is opposed to letter transcription, which is a letter by letter conversion of one language into another writing system. Still, most systems of transliteration map the letters of the source script to letters pronounced similarly in the target script ...
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]
In an effort to Russianize the Kazakhs, the Latin alphabet was in turn replaced by the Cyrillic alphabet in 1940 by Soviet interventionists. Today, there are efforts to return to the Latin script, and in January 2021 the government announced plans to switch to the Latin alphabet. [61] Kazakh is a state (official) language in Kazakhstan.