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 Ò€¦ Kazakh is spoken as a first or second language by roughly 8 million people throughout central asia, most notably in kazakhstan, but also in chinaÒ€ℒs xinjiang uyghur autonomous region, mongolia, Ò€¦

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).