Kazakhstan Shopping, Embassy and Communication
Language Overview The official languages are Russian and Kazakh, one of the Turkic languages. According to government decisions, the Russian Cyrillic alphabet is to be replaced by the Turkish version of the Latin alphabet. So far, however, the Cyrillic alphabet is still generally used. The city dwellers and the people in the north of the country speak Russian, whereas the rural population partially speaks only Kazakh. Turkish is widely spoken, but occasionally Ukrainian, Uyghur, Kyrgyz, Tatar or Uzbek is also…