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SOME FACTS

Kyrgyz, also Kirghiz, is a Northwestern Turkic language, and, together with Russian, an official language of Kyrgyzstan. Its ISO 639 codes are kir and ky. It is close enough to Kazakh that they can be mistaken for each other.

Kyrgyz is spoken by about 3 million people in Kyrgyzstan, China, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkey (Asia) and Uzbekistan. Kyrgyz is written in modified Cyrillic (Kyrgyzstan) and modified Arabic (China) scripts. A Latin script was used between 1928 and 1940 in Kyrgyzstan, and is enjoying official endorsement again, but actual use is sporadic and inconsistent.

KIRGHIZ: a language of Kyrgyzstan
SIL code: KDO
ISO 639-1: ky
ISO 639-2: kir

Population 2,448,220 in the former USSR (1993 UBS), 98% of the 2,539,000 Kirghiz speak it as mother tongue. Population total all countries 2,631,420.
Region Throughout the country. Also spoken in Afghanistan, China, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkey (Asia), Uzbekistan.
Alternate names KARA-KIRGIZ, KIRGIZ
Dialects NORTHERN KIRGIZ, SOUTHERN KIRGIZ.
Classification Altaic, Turkic, Western, Aralo-Caspian.
Comments 29% speak Russian as second language. The Ichkilik are a Kirghiz-speaking people of non-Kirghiz origin. Books, theater. The names 'Eastern Kirghiz' and 'Western Kirghiz' have been erroneously applied to Kazakh. Increasing education. Increasing feelings of Islamic brotherhood. Cyrillic script. Schools in Kirghiz. Newspapers, radio programs, films, TV. Mountain slope. Sunni Muslim, some Lamaism. NT 1991.

Also spoken in:
Afghanistan Language name KIRGHIZ
Population 500 in Afghanistan (445 in the Great Pamir, plus a few in Badakhshan).
Alternate names KIRGHIZI, KIRGIZ
Comments Literacy rate in first language: Below 1%. Afghan Kirghiz do not read Cyrillic. Sunni Muslim. NT 1991. See main entry under Kyrgyzstan.


China Language name KIRGHIZ
Population 141,549 in China (1990 census), including 50,000 in North Kirghiz, 50,000 in South Kirghiz.
Alternate names KIRGIZ, KARA, KE'ERKEZ
Comments Two dialects, divided by Kyzyl Su River. An official nationality in China. SOV. Literacy rate in second language: 59%. Uses a modified Arabic script in China. Agriculturalists. Sunni Muslim, some shamanist traditions. NT 1991. See main entry under Kyrgyzstan.


Turkey (Asia) Language name KIRGHIZ
Population 1,137 in Turkey (1982).
Comments Refugees from Afghanistan; now Turkish citizens. Speakers in Turkey read Roman, but not Cyrillic, script. Sunni Muslim. NT 1991.