Languages of Kazakhstan
See language map.Kazakhstan. 15,211,000. National or official languages: Kazakh, Russian. Immigrant languages: Armenian (19,000), Avar (960), Bashkort (21,400), Belarusan (183,000), Chechen, Chuvash (22,900), Dargwa (640), Eastern Mari (9,090), Erzya (34,400), Gagauz, Georgian (7,700), Greek (47,000), Karachay-Balkar (1,460), Karakalpak, Korean (103,000), Kumyk (550), Kyrgyz (9,610), Lak (620), Lezgi (2,570), Lithuanian (11,000), Nogai (160), North Azerbaijani (90,000), Northern Kurdish (25,000), Northern Uzbek (332,000), Osetin (3,490), Polish (61,400), Pontic, Romanian (33,000), Tabassaran (220), Tajiki (26,000), Tatar (328,000), Turkish, Turkmen (3,270), Udmurt (15,800), Ukrainian (898,000). Information mainly from T. Sebeok 1963; Zhao Xiangru and R. Hahn 1989. The number of individual languages listed for Kazakhstan is 8. Of those, all are living languages.
| Dungan | [dng]
Dialects: Shaanxi.
Classification: Sino-Tibetan, Chinese
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| German, Standard | [deu]
958,000 in Kazakhstan. Population excludes Plautdietsch [pdt].
Classification: Indo-European, Germanic, West, High German, German, Middle German, East Middle German
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| Ili Turki | [ili]
Alternate names: T’urk, Tuerke.
Classification: Altaic, Turkic, Eastern
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| Russian | [rus]
6,230,000 in Kazakhstan.
Classification: Indo-European, Slavic, East
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| 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
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