Kyrgyz or Kirghiz (Кыргыз тили) is a Northwestern Turkic language, and, together with Russian, an official language of Kyrgyzstan. It is most closely related to Altay.

Kyrgyz is spoken by about 3 million people in Kyrgyzstan, China, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkey (Asia), Uzbekistan, Pakistan (Chitral) and Russia. Kyrgyz is written in modified Cyrillic (Kyrgyzstan) and modified Arabic (China) scripts. A Latin script was used between 1928 and 1940 in Kyrgyzstan. After Kyrgyzstan gained independence in 1991, there was a popular idea among some of the Kyrgyz politicians to return Kyrgyz language back to the Latin alphabet, but this plan has never been implemented.

The modified Cyrillic alphabet includes these additions:

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

See also: Kyrgyz people

• Transliteration of Kyrgyz into English

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