| Country: | Kazakhstan |
| Image Size: | 300 |
| Official: | Kazakh (national/state language), Russian (official) |
| National: | Kazakh language |
| Minority: | Kazakh |
| Foreign: | English, German |
| Keyboard: | ЙЦУКЕН |
| Source: | Languages committee of the Ministry of culture and sports |
| Extralabel: | Alphabet |
| Extra: | Kazakh alphabets Kazakh Braille |
| Sign: | Kazakh Sign Language |
Kazakhstan is officially a bilingual country. Kazakh (part of the Kipchak sub-branch of the Turkic languages) is proficiently spoken by 80.1% of the population according to 2021 census, and has the status of "state language". Russian, on the other hand, is spoken by 83.7% as of 2021.[1] It has equal status to Kazakh as an "official language", and is used routinely in business, government, and inter-ethnic communication. However, only 63.45% of ethnic Kazakhs and 49.3% of the country's population are daily speakers of Kazakh language, according to the same census.[2]
Other languages natively spoken in Kazakhstan are Dungan, Ili Turki, Ingush, Plautdietsch, and Sinte Romani.[3] A number of more recent immigrant languages, such as Belarusian, Korean, Azerbaijani, and Greek are also spoken.[4] [5]
The following table shows the share of the population that can speak the language according to the :[6]
| Language | Script | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Russian | 83.7 | Cyrillic | |
| Kazakh | 80.1 | Cyrillic, Latin | |
| English | 35.1 | Latin | |
| Uzbek | 2.5 | Latin, Cyrillic | |
| Uyghur | 0.9 | Perso-Arabic, Latin | |
| Turkish | 0.6 | Latin | |
| German | 0.6 | Latin | |
| Tatar | 0.5 | Cyrillic | |
| Azerbaijani | 0.5 | Cyrillic, Latin, Perso-Arabic | |
| Korean | 0.3 | Hangul | |
| Kyrgyz | 0.2 | Cyrillic, Perso-Arabic | |
| Belarusian | 0.1 | Cyrillic | |
| Ukrainian | 0.1 | Cyrillic | |
| Chinese | 0.1 | Chinese characters | |
| Chechen | 0.1 | Cyrillic | |
| French | 0.1 | Latin | |
| Arabic | 0.1 | Arabic alphabet | |
| Other | 2.7 | — |