Language/Kirghiz
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You will find below many free resources to learn and practice this language.
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Facts about Kirghiz
- Language code (ISO 639-3):
kir - Autonyms (how to write "Kirghiz" in Kirghiz):
Кыргыз тили / Qьrƣьz tili / قىرعىز تيلى / Кыргызча / Qırğızça / قىرعىچه - Other names for "Kirghiz":
Kirghiz, Kirghizi, Kirgiz, Kyrgyz tili, Kyrgyzcha, Kara, Ke’erkez, Kara-Kirgiz - The Kirghiz language is spoken in:
Kyrgyzstan - Spoken by: 4 million people
Kyrgyz (Кыргызча), also spelled as Kirghiz, Kirgiz and Qirghiz, is a Turkic language of the Kipchak branch spoken in Central Asia. Kyrgyz is the official language of Kyrgyzstan and a significant minority language in the Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture in Xinjiang, China and in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province of Tajikistan. There is a very high level of mutual intelligibility between Kyrgyz, Kazakh and Altay.
- It is written using the Cyrillic alphabet, to which three letters have been added.
- Kyrgyz is very close to Kazakh. It is usually classified with this as well as Tatar and Karakalpak within the Kiptchak language group.
Sources
Kirghiz Dictionaries
• Tamgasoft: Kyrgyz-English dictionary & French, Russian
• spell checker, correction of spelling and grammar errors
• Pauctle: Kyrgyz-Turkish dictionary
• Кыргызча-орусча сөздук: Russian-Kyrgyz dictionary by Константин Юдахин (Constantin Yudakhin) (1984) А-К & Л-Я [PDF]
• Talking Kyrgyz phrasebook: Kyrgyz-English common phrases, by Michael Denner & Mirajidin Arynov (+ audio)
• 17 minute languages: Kyrgyz-English common phrases (+ audio)
• Kyrgyz-French-English glossary on livestock-keeping and pastures, by Irène Mestre (2018)
• Russian, bidirectional http://tili.kg/
Sources
- https://www.lexilogos.com/english/kyrgyz_dictionary.htm
- https://polyglotclub.com/wiki/Language/Multiple-languages/Culture/Internet-Dictionaries