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Kyrgyz language Wikipedia

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Kyrgyz, also Kirghiz (Кыргыз
тили), is a Northwestern Turkic languages|Turkic language, and, together with Russian language|Russian, an official language of Kyrgyzstan. Its ISO 639 codes are kir and ky. It is close enough to Kazakh language|Kazakh that they can be mistaken for each other.

Kyrgyz is spoken by about 3 million people in Kyrgyzstan, China, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkey (Asia) and Uzbekistan. Kyrgyz is written in modified Cyrillic alphabet|Cyrillic (Kyrgyzstan) and modified Arabic alphabet|Arabic (China) scripts. A Latin alphabet|Latin script was used between 1928 and 1940 in Kyrgyzstan, and is enjoying official endorsement again, but actual use is sporadic and inconsistent.

The modified Cyrillic alphabet includes these additions:

<table border="0">
<tr><th>Capital<th>Small<th>Name<th>Sound
<tr><td>Ң<td>ң<td>&nbsp;<td>IPA|/velar nasal|ŋ/
<tr><td>Ү<td>ү<td>&nbsp;<td>IPA|/close front rounded vowel|y/
<tr><td>Ө<td>ө<td>&nbsp;<td>IPA|/open-mid front rounded vowel|œ/
</table>

А Б (В) Г Д Е Ё Ж З И Й К Л М Н Ң О Ө П Р С Т У Ү (Ф) Х Ц Ч Ш Щ (Ъ) Ы (Ь) Э Ю Я

See also: Kirghiz|Kyrgyz people
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ar:قرغيزية
de:Kirgisische Sprache
nl:Kirgizisch
eo:Kirgiza lingvo
fr:Kirghiz
ja:キルギス語
pl:Język kirgiski
zh:吉尔吉斯语

Category:Languages of China
Category:Languages of Kyrgyzstan
Category:Turkic languages

Last Modified:   2005-04-13