Kazakh Translation

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The Kazakh-speaking world:

  regions where Kazakh is the language of the majority

  regions where Kazakh is the language of a significant minority

About Kazakh
Kazakh is a member of the Kipchak branch of the Turkic language family. It is spoken mainly in Kazakhstan, China and Uzbekistan and also in Iran, Mongolia, Turkey and other countries. In 2009 there were about 12.8 million speakers of Kazakh: about 10 million in Kazakhstan, 1.25 million in China, almost 1 million in Uzbekistan, and about 100,000 in Mongolia.
Kazakh is spoken in the northeast of China in Gansu and Qinghai provinces and in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. In Uzbekistan it is spoken in Karakalpakstan Autonomous Republic. In Mongolia it is spoken in Bayan-Olgiy and Hovd provinces.
Kazakh is also known as Qazaq, Kaisak, Kazak, Kosach, Kazax, Gazaqi, Kazakhi or Qazaqi. The word Kazakh comes from the ancient Turkic word qaz (to wander). The word cossack comes from the root.
Kazakh was first written with the Arabic script during the 19th century when a number of poets, educated in Islamic schools, incited revolt against Russia. Russia's response was to set up secular schools and devise a way of writing Kazakh with the Cyrillic alphabet, which was not widely accepted. By 1917, the Arabic script was reintroduced, even in schools and local government.
In 1927, Kazakh nationalist movement sprang up but was soon suppressed. At the same time the Arabic script was banned and the Latin alphabet was imposed for writing Kazakh. The Latin alphabet was in turn replaced by the Cyrillic alphabet in 1940.
Since 2006, as part of a modernization program, the government of Kazakhstan decided to replace the Cyrillic alphabet with the Latin alphabet. The switch to the Latin alphabet official started in October 2017, and is expected to be complete by 2025.

Arabic alphabet for Kazakh

Latin alphabet for Kazakh (Qazaq latin álipıi)
This version of the Latin alphabet was adopted in October 2017, and amended in 2018 and 2019.

Cyrillic alphabet for Kazakh(Қазақ кирилл әліпбиі)

Notes
• Kazakh has vowel harmoney: ә, e, i, ө & ү are front vowels, and а, ы, о & ұ are back vowels, while Semi(Neutral) - й, и & у are neutral vowels.
• In native words, ғ & қ are used before or after back vowels, and г & к are used before or after front vowels, e.g. ағаш қазан
• Before or after ғ & қ and back vowels, и = [əj~ɯj] and у = [ʊw~əw]. Before or after г & к and front vowels, и = [ɪj~ɘj] and у = [ʉw~ɘw~ʏw]. e.g. қиын [qəj'ən], биік [bɘj'ɘk], суық [sʊw'əq], бітіру [bɘtɘ'ɾɘw].
• Before or between vowels and at the end of words у = [w], e.g. уақыт /wa'qət/, сәуір /sæwɘr/ and сау /sɑw/
• х is often changed to қ, e.g. хал > қал, рахмет > рақмет.
• е, ө & ү are diphthongs.

How much does a translation into Kazakh cost?
The standard rate for translations from English into Kazakh is $ 0.11. For urgent jobs that need several linguists working simultaneously, we will apply a surcharge.

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