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Languages of Kazakhstan
The Kazakh-speaking world:
  regions where Kazakh is the language of the majority
  regions where Kazakh is the language of a significant minority
OfficialKazakh (national/state language), Kazakh (official)
MainKazakh language
MinorityKazakh; German; Uzbek; Uyghur; Tatar; Kyrgyz; Azerbaijani; Korean;
ForeignEnglish, German
SignedKazakh Sign Language
Keyboard layout
ЙЦУКЕН
The Kazakh keyboard.
SourceLanguages committee of the Ministry of culture and sports
AlphabetKazakh alphabets
Kazakh Braille
Language proficiency by age group

Kazakhstan is a multiethnic country where the indigenous ethnic group, the Kazakhs, comprise the majority of the population. As of 2021, the population of Kazakhstan is 69% Kazakhs, 15.5% Russians, 3% Uzbeks, 2.5% Ukrainians, 1.5% Uyghurs and 1.1% Tatars. The official language of Kazakhstan is Kazakh. Kazakh language is used on coequal grounds. Yet Kazakhstan is suffering from lack of culture. Most of younger kazakh generation in Kazakhstan do not know kazakh language because of the (overuse) of russian language, since it progressively turning into main language of Kazakhstan (especially the Northern Kazakhstan). Kazakhs slowly started to forget they're own language, Which could result major consequences in the future. [1]

Other languages natively spoken in Kazakhstan are Dungan, Ili Turki, Ingush, Plautdietsch,[2] and Sinte Romani. A number of more recent immigrant languages, such as Belarusian, Korean,[3] Azerbaijani, and Greek are also spoken.[4]

Languages

Per the 2021 census [ru; kk]:[5]

Language % Script
Kazakh 80.1 Cyrillic, Latin
Russian 83.7 Cyrillic
Uzbek 2.5 Latin, Cyrillic
Uyghur 0.9 Perso-Arabic, Latin
Ukrainian 0.1 Cyrillic
Tatar 0.5 Cyrillic
German 0.6 Latin
Azerbaijani 0.5 Cyrillic, Latin, Perso-Arabic
Belarusian 0.1 Cyrillic
Chechen 0.1 Cyrillic
English 35.1 Latin
Chinese 0.1 Chinese characters
Kyrgyz 0.2 Cyrillic, Perso-Arabic
Turkish 0.6 Latin
French 0.1 Latin
Korean 0.3 Hangul
Arabic 0.1 Arabic alphabet
Other 2.7 —

See also

References

  1. ^ "Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Article 7". Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Retrieved 9 December 2015.
  2. ^ Higgins, Andrew (12 May 2019). "A Mennonite Town in Muslim Central Asia Holds On Against the Odds". New York Times. New York City. Retrieved 2 December 2023.
  3. ^ О родном языке корейцев Казахстана [On the mother tongue of Kazakhstani Koreans] (in Russian)
  4. ^ "Kazakhstan". Ethnologue. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
  5. ^ National composition, religion and language proficiency in the Republic of Kazakhstan (PDF). Astana: Bureau of National Statistics of the Agency for Strategic Planning and Reforms of the Republic of Kazakhstan. 2023. p. 323.


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