What is the language of Kazakhstan?

Kazakh is the national language and Russian is the official language.

Since the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Kazakhstan has used Kazakh more in official documents, but in most cases, people only use Kazakh translation to meet the requirements of official documents, but they still use Russian in practical affairs.

20 1 1 The Ministry of Culture of Kazakhstan has put forward a draft to revise the language policy, requiring all citizens to use Kazakh when communicating with internal documents of government agencies and state institutions. Kazakh is a branch of Turkic language family, and about 66.4% of the population in Kazakhstan speaks Kazakh as their mother tongue? .

The government of Kazakhstan announced in June 20 15 that the writing system of Kazakh will be changed from Cyrillic alphabet to Latin alphabet by 2025.

The minority languages spoken in Kazakhstan include Uzbek, Ukrainian, Uygur, Kirgiz and Tatar. After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the influence of English and Turkish among young people gradually increased.

Kazakhstan's education system uses Kazakh or Russian or both languages. Nazarbayev said in his resignation speech on 20 19 that the people of Kazakhstan in the future will be "free people who can speak three languages (Kazakh, Russian and English)".

202 1 Maolin Ashmbayev, Speaker of the Senate of Kazakhstan, said that the proportion of Kazakhs who master Kazakh and Russian is 86% and 92% respectively.

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Kazakhs account for 73% of the population, and Russians account for 15.4%. Other races include Tatars (1.3%) and Ukrainians? (2. 1%), Uzbeks (2.8%), Belarusians, Uighurs (1.4%), Azerbaijanis, Poles and Lithuanians.

Other ethnic minorities opposed to the regime, such as Germans (1. 1%), Ukrainians, Koreans, Chechens, Mescht Turks and Russians, were exiled by Stalin from 1930 to Kazakhstan 1940? In Kazakhstan, there are several largest reform-through-labour camps in the Soviet Union.