
Kyrgyz or Kirghiz is a Turkic language that is spoken by an estimated 4-5 million people residing in Kyrgyzstan, China, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Pakistan and Russia. Today, it is one of two official languages of Kyrgyzstan, along with Russian. Genetically-speaking, it is most closely related to the Altay language of western Siberia and more distantly to the Kazakh language. As well, Kyrgyz also shares a substantial degree of mutual intelligibility with Kazakh. Unt...
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