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Kyrgyz or even Kirghiz (Кыргыз тили) occurs as Northwestern Turkic language, and, together by using Russian, an official language of Kyrgyzstan. Its ISO 639 codes are kir & kentucky.

Kyrgyz is spoken by astir Three million humans around Kyrgyzstan, China, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkey (Asia) and Uzbekistan, Russia, Pakistan. Kyrgyz is written inside limited Cyrillic (Kyrgyzstan) and modified Arabic (China) scripts. The Latin script was used between 1928 and 1940 in Kyrgyzstan. Fallowing Kyrgyzstan gained independence inside 1991, there was a popular idea among occasionally of the Kyrgyz politicians to go to Kyrgyz language back to the Latin alphabet, but this project has never been implemented.

A limited Cyrillic alphabet includes these additions:

CapitalLittleTitleSound
Ò¢Ò£ 
Ò®Ò¯ 
Ó¨Ó© 

Ð? Б (Ð’) Г Д Е Ð? Ж З И Й К Л М Ð? Ò¢ О Ó¨ П Р С Т У Ò® (Ф) Ð¥ Ц Ч Ш Щ (Ъ) Ы (Ь) Э Ю Я

View as well: Kyrgyz people Transliteration of Kyrgyz into English

ar:قرغيزية (لغة) id:Bahasa Kirgiz bg:Киргизки език br:Kirgizeg de:Kirgisische Sprache eo:Kirgiza lingvo fr:Kirghiz nl:Kirgizisch ja:キルギス語 pl:JÄ™zyk kirgiski ru:КиргизÑ?кий Ñ?зык fi:Kirgiisin kieli sv:Kirgiziska tr:Kırgızca

Kirghiz Proverbs
Large collection from Elmira Kochumkulkizi's website, University of Washington.

Kyrgyz Profile
Profile of the Kyrgyz language, from the University of California's Language Materials Project.

Learning Kyrgyz
A blog detailing one learner's experience with studying the Kyrgyz language. Includes links to language resources.


Regional: Asia: Kyrgyzstan
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