Country: | Kazakhstan |
Image Size: | 300 |
Official: | Kazakh (national/state language), Russian (official) |
National: | Kazakh language |
Minority: | Kazakh |
Foreign: | English, German |
Keyboard: | ЙЦУКЕН |
Source: | Languages committee of the Ministry of culture and sports |
Extralabel: | Alphabet |
Extra: | Kazakh alphabets Kazakh Braille |
Sign: | Kazakh Sign Language |
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. Russian language is used on coequal grounds.
Other languages natively spoken in Kazakhstan are Dungan, Ili Turki, Ingush, Plautdietsch,[1] and Sinte Romani. A number of more recent immigrant languages, such as Belarusian, Korean,[2] Azerbaijani, and Greek are also spoken.[3]
Per the :[4]
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 | — |