Kazakh is spoken as a first or second language by roughly 8 million people throughout central asia, most notably in kazakhstan, but also in china’s xinjiang uyghur autonomous region, mongolia, … The term kazakh is used to refer to ethnic kazakhs, while the term kazakhstani refers to all citizens of kazakhstan, regardless of ethnicity. The kazakh people, also known as kazakhs or qazaqs, are an ancient and diverse ethnic group native to central asia.

The kazakh people are a turkic-speaking people inhabiting kazakhstan and the adjacent parts of xinjiang uygur autonomous region in china. They speak kazakh, a northwestern (kipchak) turkic … Kazakh was written with the arabic script until the mid-19th century, when a number of educated kazakh poets from muslim madrasahs incited a revolt against russia. The word kazakh is generally used to refer to people of actual kazakh descent (including those living in china, afghanistan, and other central asian countries).