Extensive List of Languages of Kazakhstan: Spoken and Extinct Languages
In this Country Profile
Dungan
[dng] Dialects: Shaanxi. Classification: Sino-Tibetan, Chinese
German, Standard
[deu] 958,000 in Kazakhstan. Population excludes Plautdietsch [pdt]. Classification: Indo-European, Germanic, West, High German, German, Middle German, East Middle German
Ili Turki
[ili] Alternate names: T’urk, Tuerke. Classification: Altaic, Turkic, Eastern
Kazakh
[kaz] 5,290,000 in Kazakhstan (1979 census). Population total all countries: 8,331,950. Kazakhstan, northern Soviet Middle Asia into western Siberia. Also in Afghanistan, China, Germany, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Russian Federation (Asia), Tajikistan, Turkey (Asia), Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United States, Uzbekistan. Alternate names: Kaisak, Kazak, Kosach, Qazaq. Dialects: Northeastern Kazakh, Southern Kazakh, Western Kazakh. Minor dialect differences. Classification: Altaic, Turkic, Western, Aralo-Caspian
Plautdietsch
[pdt] 50,000 in Kazakhstan (1986). Alma Ata near the China border, beyond Tashkent. Alternate names: Low German. Classification: Indo-European, Germanic, West, Low Saxon-Low Franconian, Low Saxon
Romani, Sinte
[rmo] Kazakhstan (formerly Volga area until 1941). Alternate names: Manouche, Manuche, Sinti, Tsigane. Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Central zone, Romani, Northern
Russian
[rus] 6,230,000 in Kazakhstan. Classification: Indo-European, Slavic, East
Uyghur
[uig] 300,000 in Kazakhstan (1993). Taranchi dialect in Kazakhstan; Kashgar-Yarkand in Uzbekistan. Alternate names: Novouygur, Uighur, Uiguir, Uygur. Dialects: Taranchi (Kulja), Kashgar-Yarkand. Classification: Altaic, Turkic, Eastern
:: Reference ::
Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.), 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com/
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