| Kazakh | |
|---|---|
| қазақ тілі, qazaq tili, قازاق تىلى | |
| Pronunciation | [qɑˈzɑq tɘˈlɘ] |
| Native to | Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Russia, Iran |
| Native speakers | 11.0 million (date missing) |
| Language family |
Turkic
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| Writing system | Cyrillic, Latin, Perso-Arabic |
| Official status | |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | kk |
| ISO 639-2 | kaz |
| ISO 639-3 | kaz |
Kazakh (also Qazaq, Qazaqşa and variants, natively Қазақ тілі, Qazaq tili, قازاق ٴتىلى; pronounced [qɑˈzɑq tɘˈlɘ]) is a Turkic language which belongs to the Kipchak (or Western Turkic) branch of the Turkic languages, closely related to Nogai and Karakalpak.
Kazakh is an agglutinative language, and it employs vowel harmony.