Langenesis

Turkic family

Kazakh

1500 CE – today Living

Kazakh (1500 CE – today) is a living Turkic language. Lineage: Proto-Turkic → Old Turkic → Proto-Kipchak → Kazakh.

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Speakers
13M (13,000,000)
ISO 639-3
kaz
Glottocode
kaza1248

Member of the Kipchak (northwestern) branch. Standardised in the early 20th century. Switching from Cyrillic to a Latin-based script (planned completion 2031).

Lineage

  1. Proto-Turkicc. 200 BCE – 500 CE
  2. Old Turkic550 CE – 900 CE
  3. Proto-Kipchakc. 800 CE – 1200 CE
  4. Kazakh1500 CE – today

Sister languages 5

Also descended from Proto-Kipchak.

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