Kyrgyz

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Kyrgyz is a Turkic language primarily spoken in Kyrgyzstan and surrounding regions of Central Asia.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Kyrgyz canonical 52
Kyrgyz language 7
Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyz language 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Turkic language
agglutinative language
natural language
basicWordOrder SOV
belongsToMacroFamily Altaic hypothesis (disputed)
closelyRelatedTo Karakalpak
Kazakh
linked to: Kazakhs

Nogai
hasCaseSystem yes
hasMorphologyType suffixing
hasNumberCategory plural
singular
hasPhonologicalFeature vowel length distinctions (in some dialects)
hasStandardForm Standard Kyrgyz
linked to: Kyrgyz
hasTenseCategory future
past
present
hasVowelHarmony yes
historicalScript Arabic script
linked to: Arabic alphabet

Latin script
ISO639-1Code ky
ISO639-2Code kir
ISO639-3Code kir
isOfficialLanguage yes
languageCode ky-KG
languageFamily Turkic
minorityLanguageIn Afghanistan
China
Tajikistan
Uzbekistan
officialLanguageOf Kyrgyzstan
primaryCountry Kyrgyzstan
region Central Asia
regulatingBody National Commission on State Language of Kyrgyzstan
scriptReform Cyrillic-based orthography in Soviet period
spokenBy Kyrgyz people
spokenIn Afghanistan
China
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan
Uzbekistan
subfamily Kipchak branch
usedIn education in Kyrgyzstan
government in Kyrgyzstan
mass media in Kyrgyzstan
writingSystem Arabic script
Cyrillic script
Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (61)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Xinjiang ethnicGroup Kyrgyz
Tatar language closelyRelatedTo Kyrgyz language
linked to: Kyrgyz
Kipchak languages spokenBy Kyrgyz
Kipchak languages includesLanguage Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyz language
linked to: Kyrgyz
Kazakhs relatedEthnicGroup Kyrgyz
Issyk-Kul nameLanguage Kyrgyz
Uyghurs relatedEthnicGroup Kyrgyz
Ferghana Valley language Kyrgyz
Tengrism associatedPeople Kyrgyz
Kyrgyz hasStandardForm Standard Kyrgyz
linked to: Kyrgyz
.kg languageOfRegistration Kyrgyz
Kok-boru languageOfName Kyrgyz
tunduk etymologyLanguage Kyrgyz language
linked to: Kyrgyz
Issyk-Kul Region language Kyrgyz
Bishkek officialLanguage Kyrgyz
Pamir languages contactWith Kyrgyz language
linked to: Kyrgyz
Pishpek languageOfName Kyrgyz
Nogai closelyRelatedTo Kyrgyz language
linked to: Kyrgyz
Karakalpak language closelyRelatedTo Kyrgyz language
linked to: Kyrgyz
Organization of Turkic States officialLanguage Kyrgyz
subject linked to: OTS
Balykchy languageUsed Kyrgyz
Karakol languageUsed Kyrgyz
Osh languageUsed Kyrgyz
Kara Darya languageOfName Kyrgyz
National Commission on State Language of Kyrgyzstan languageOfWork Kyrgyz language
linked to: Kyrgyz