Kyrgyz

This page relates to the Kyrgyz language . For the people of the Kirgiz, to see the Kyrgyz article .

The Kyrgyz (кыргызтили) is a language belonging to the group of the Turkish Langues of the family of the altaïques Langues. From a typological point of view it acts of a agglutinant Langue. He is spoken in Central Asia, mainly in Kirghizstan (where he is the national language), with the Tadjikistan, the Xinjiang and in Afghanistan.

The Kyrgyz is spoken by approximately 3 million people. One writes it by means of the Cyrillic alphabet, to which some letters are added, but the Kyrgyz is sometimes written by using the Arabic alphabet, also supplemented to him. Between 1928 and 1940, Kirghizstan adopted the Latin alphabet, which remains of a very sporadic use.

The Kyrgyz is very close to the Kazakh . It is usually classified with this one as well as the Tatar and the Karakalpak within the group of the Kïptchak languages (or connects Turkish Western). But this classification is discussed and one finds some times the Kyrgyz classified with the languages of the Altay (that is to say the septentrional Turkish branch) for the strong cultural unit bringing closer these populations.

Kyrgyz alphabet

АБ (В) ГДЕЁЖЗИЙКЛМНҢОӨПРСТУҮ (Ф) ХЦЧШЩ (Ъ) Ы (Ь) ЭЮЯ

The letters added to the Cyrillic alphabet and suitable for the Kyrgyz are the following ones:

The letters between brackets are used only rather seldom, and mainly for names and words borrowed abroad.

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