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Kyrgyz, also Kirghiz (Кыргыз

тили) — is a Northwestern Turkic language, and with Russian makes up the official languages of Kyrgyzstan. Its ISO 639 codes are kir and ky. It is so close to Kazakh that they can be mistaken for each other.

Also spoken in China, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkey (Asia), Uzbekistan, there are about 5 million speakers. Kyrgyz uses a modified Cyrillic (Kyrgyzstan) and modified Arabic (China) scripts. Latin script was used during 1928- 1940Events January-February January 5 FM radio is demonstrated to the FCC for the first time. January 6 World War II: Mass execution of Poles, committed by Germans in the Poznan, Warthegau. January 12 World War II: Russia bombs cities in Finland. February 2 F in Kyrgyzstan, and is enjoying official endorsement again, but actual use is sporadic and inconsistent.

The modified Cyrillic alphabet includes these additions, sounds are indicated using the SAMPA chart:

CapitalSmallNameSound
Ңң /N/
Үү /y/
Өө /9/

А Б (В) Г Д Е Ё Ж З И Й К Л М Н Ң О Ө Р С Т У Ү (Ф) Х Ц Ч Ш Щ (Ъ) Ы (Ь) Э Ю Я

See also: Kyrgyz peopleKirghiz (also Kyrgyz are a Turkic ethnic group found primarily in Kyrgyzstan. It is considered that there are 40 Kirghiz tribes. This is translated by the yellow sun in the center of the flag of Kyrgyzstan, which has 40 rays. Kirghizs in China The Kirghiz





Languages of ChinaFor treatment of the various forms of spoken Chinese, see Chinese spoken languages. The different ethnic groups in China speak a great variety of languages, called the Zhongguo Yuwen , meaning languages of China . These languages span six linguistic famil Languages of Kyrgyzstan Turkic languages

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