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- Kyrgyz (kir)

Kyrgyz 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 Region of Tajikistan. There is a very high level of mutual intelligibility between Kyrgyz, Kazakh, and Altay. A dialect of Kyrgyz known as Pamiri Kyrgyz is spoken in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

There are 4.5 million native speakers of Kyrgyz in Kyrgyzstan. There are about 282,000 Kyrgyz speakers in Uzbekistan, 160,000 in China, 80,300 in the Russian Federation, 71,400 in Tajikistan, and 17,200 in Kazakhstan.

Kyrgyz is a Common Turkic language belonging to the Kipchak branch of the family. It is considered to be an East Kipchak language, forming a subfamily with the Southern Altai language within the greater Kipchak branch. Internally, Kyrgyz has three distinct varieties: Northern and Southern Kyrgyz

Kyrgyz is statutory national language of Kyrgyzstan, and is used in schools, newspapers and on radio and television. In China Kyrgyz is spoken mainly in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, especially in Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture, where it is an official language. In Uzbekistan there are Kyrgyz speakers in the Andijan, Farg'ona and Namangan regions.

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