Eurasia · ISO 639-3 kaz · Glottocode kaza1248
Kazakh
Kazakh broadens the family and script perspective on Eurasia: the record gives classification as a language of the Turkic family, not endangered status, and likely Cyrillic.
- Language family
- Turkic
- Likely script
- Cyrillic (Cyrl)
- Source status
- not endangered
- Macroarea
- Eurasia
- Source country codes
- AF · CN · IR · KG · KZ · MN · RU · TJ · TM · UZ
- Reference point
- 51.170, 71.454
Open research question
How do speakers of Kazakh assess existing descriptions of their language, and which corrections do they consider most urgent?
This question is an assignment for later subject and community-proximate source review, not a claim about a uniform cultural worldview.
Scholarly boundary
The map point is a Glottolog reference point, not a language-area boundary. The script field is a likely Unicode CLDR assignment, not a complete history of orthography. Information on endangerment and countries follows the linked source data and does not replace current local assessment.