
Kazakh is is the official state language of Kazakhstan. There are 12 million Kazakh speakers worldwide (mainly ethnic Kazakhs), including an estimated 10 million in Kazakhstan itself and over 1 million in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. According to the 2002 census, Russia was also home to some 560,000 Kazakh speakers. Other sizable populations of Kazakh speakers live in Mongolia (less than 200,000), Uzbekistan and other Central Asian republics, the former USSR, Afghanistan, Iran, and...
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