Language code: kk

Kazakh belongs to the Turkic language family, more specifically to the Kipchak subgroup. It is one of the official languages of Kazakhstan and is also spoken in the Altai Republic of Russia and in Xinjiang, northwest China. Historically, Kazakh has been written using the Arabic script, and later the Cyrillic script. Currently, there is an ongoing transition to adopt a Latin-based alphabet, although Cyrillic remains the predominant script. It is estimated that there are more than 17 million speakers of Kazakh worldwide.