Kyrgyz
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Kyrgyz is a Turkic language spoken in Central Asia, primarily in Kyrgyzstan and by Kyrgyz communities in neighboring regions. It belongs to the Kipchak Turkic language family, which means it shares linguistic roots with other Turkic languages across the region.
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A speaker of the Kyrgyz language in traditional dress, recorded on the Chunkurchak pasture on the outskirts of Bishkek during an interview Azim, a speaker of the Kyrgyz language, recorded in Taiwan
Kyrgyz is a Turkic language of the Kipchak branch spoken in Central Asia. It is the official language of Kyrgyzstan and a significant minority language in the Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture in Xinjiang, China and in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region of Tajikistan. There is a very high level of mutual intelligibility between Kyrgyz, Kazakh, and Altay. A dialect of Kyrgyz known as Pamiri Kyrgyz is spoken in north-eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan. Kyrgyz is also spoken by many ethnic Kyrgyz through the former Soviet Union, Afghanistan, Turkey, parts of northern Pakistan, and Russia.