ISO 639-3 · kirkir
Turkic family
Kyrgyz
Кыргыз тили
Kyrgyz is a language of the Kipchak branch (Turkic), spoken in Kyrgyzstan, China and Tajikistan. Wikidata counts about 4.6 m speakers (2009). Wikidata describes it as “Kipchak Turkic language of Central Asia”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
kir- ISO 639-1
ky- Glottocode
kirg1245- Family
- Turkic
- EGIDS
- 1 National
- UNESCO
- Safe
- Centre point
- 41.00, 75.00
- Wikipedia
- 137 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
3countries
2scripts
3levels in the tree
1EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Kyrgyz · Кыргыз тили |
|---|---|
| Also called | Kirghiz language, Kirgiz language, Kirgiz, Kirghiz, Kyrgyz language |
| All speakers | 4,568,480 (2009) |
| Written in | Cyrillic, Arabic script |
| Official in | Kyrgyzstan |
Vitality
EGIDS 1 National1
Institutional. Used in government, education and media — EGIDS 0 to 4.
Other languages at this levelUNESCO: Safe
Languages at this levelfamily tree
From Turkic to Kyrgyz
The branches above Kyrgyz, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
