Numbers in Languages of Central Asia. Kazakh is one of the main languages of Kazakhstan, alongside R
Numbers in Languages of Central Asia. Kazakh is one of the main languages of Kazakhstan, alongside Russian, and is spoken by over 5 million people within the country. It is from the Kipchak-Nogai branch of the Kipchak family of Common Turkic, in the Turkic language family. It can be seen written in the Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic alphabets.Uzbek is the official language of Uzbekistan, with about 27 million speakers. It comes from the Karluk branch of Common Turkic in the Turkic language family. It is typically written in the Latin or the Cyrillic alphabet.Turkmen, the official language of Turkmenistan, is spoken by about 6.7 million people. It comes from the Eastern Oghuz branch of the Oghuz languages within Common Turkic. It can be seen written in Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic script.Kyrgyz is the official language of Kyrgyzstan and is spoken by over four million people. Like Kazakh, it is from the Kipchak branch of Common Turkic, belongs to the Kyrgyz-Kipchak subgroup. Kyrgyz can be written in Person-Arabic script or Cyrillic script.Tajik, the official language of Tajikistan, is spoken by about 8.4 million people and comes from a completely different linguistic family as the languages previously described. It is actually an Indo-European language, from the Persian subgroup of the Iranian languages. Tajik can be written in the Cyrillic or Latin alphabet.Dari, also known as Farsi, is an official language of Afghanistan and is spoken by 12.5 million people. It is also a Persian language from the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It uses the Persian alphabet.Pashto is the other official language of Afghanistan, mostly spoken southeast of the Dari speaking area by 58 million people. It is also an Iranian language, but comes from the Eastern Iranian branch rather than the Western Iranian branch (from which Persian languages originated). It is written in Person-Arabic script.Note: Spelling, pronunciation or full words may differ according to region or locale. -- source link
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