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2 List of languages by the number of countries in which they are the most widely used. ... Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Kyrgyz: Kyrgyzstan (with Russian ...
Kyrgyz is the official language of Kyrgyzstan and a significant minority language in the Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture in Xinjiang, China and in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region of Tajikistan. There is a very high level of mutual intelligibility between Kyrgyz, Kazakh, and Altay. A dialect of Kyrgyz known as Pamiri Kyrgyz is spoken ...
In Kyrgyz, vowels are also divided into short and long. Whether in Kyrgyz Cyrillic Alphabet, or in Kyrgyz Arabic Alphabet, long vowels are represented by writing the same letter twice. For example, in the word дөөлөт / دۅۅلۅت 'state', there is a long vowel and a short vowel.
The languages of government in Kyrgyzstan are Russian as the official and inter-ethnic language and Kyrgyz as the state/national language. [citation needed] Kyrgyz is a Turkic language of the Kipchak branch, closely related to Kazakh, Karakalpak, and Nogay Tatar. It was written in the Arabic alphabet until the twentieth century.
Notes on vowel quality: Kyrgyz vowel space is different in affixes and stems. Washington (2007) describes the former as more typical and more condensed. [2]In stem vowel space, the main difference between /e/ and /i/ is that the latter is more back.
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The Kipchak languages (also known as the Kypchak, Qypchaq, Qypshaq or the Northwestern Turkic languages) are a sub-branch of the Turkic language family spoken by approximately 30 million people in much of Central Asia and Eastern Europe, spanning from Ukraine to China. Some of the most widely spoken languages in this group are Kazakh, Kyrgyz ...
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