Editing Kazakhstan (section)

=== Languages ===
{{Main|Languages of Kazakhstan}}

Kazakhstan is officially a bilingual country.<ref>[https://www.akorda.kz/en/official_documents/constitution_ "Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan"]{{Dead link|date=September 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}. Official website of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan.</ref> [[Kazakh language|Kazakh]] (part of the [[Kipchak languages|Kipchak sub-branch]] of the [[Turkic languages]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Kazakhstan |date=7 September 2018 |publisher=Bradt Travel Guides; Third edition |isbn=978-1-78477-092-1|page= 22 |author1=Paul Brummell }}</ref> is proficiently spoken by 80.1% of the population according to 2021 census,<ref name="census">{{Cite web |title=National composition, religion and language proficiency in the Republic of Kazakhstan |url=https://stat.gov.kz/upload/medialibrary/cee/3rsfg8ps3xo19orb284esg4rx27ihqf7/Национальный%20состав.pdf |access-date=2024-09-07 |website=stat.gov.kz |language=en}}</ref>{{rp|323}} and has the status of "state language". [[Russian language|Russian]], on the other hand, is spoken by 83.7% as of 2021.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.studycountry.com/guide/KZ-language.htm|title=The Languages spoken in Kazakhstan|website=Studycountry|language=en-US|access-date=11 August 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170811144650/http://www.studycountry.com/guide/KZ-language.htm|archive-date=11 August 2017}}</ref> It has equal status to Kazakh as an "official language", and is used routinely in business, government, and inter-ethnic communication.<ref>"[https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kazakhstan-language/lost-in-translation-kazakh-leader-bans-cabinet-from-speaking-russian-idUSKCN1GB1EJ Lost in translation? Kazakh leader bans cabinet from speaking Russian] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180525033358/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kazakhstan-language/lost-in-translation-kazakh-leader-bans-cabinet-from-speaking-russian-idUSKCN1GB1EJ|date=25 May 2018}}". Reuters. 27 February 2018.</ref> However, only 63.4% of ethnic Kazakhs and 49.3% of the country's population are daily speakers of Kazakh language, according to the same census.<ref name="census"/>{{rp|382}}

The government announced in January 2015 that the [[Latin alphabet]] will replace [[Cyrillic]] as the writing system for the Kazakh language by 2025.<ref name="inform.kz">[http://www.inform.kz/eng/article/2741711 Kazakh language to be converted to Latin alphabet – MCS RK] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170219113151/http://www.inform.kz/en/kazakh-language-to-be-converted-to-latin-alphabet-mcs-rk_a2741711|date=19 February 2017}}. Inform.kz (30 January 2015). Retrieved 28 September 2015.</ref> Other minority languages spoken in Kazakhstan include [[Uzbek language|Uzbek]], [[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]], [[Uyghur language|Uyghur]], [[Kyrgyz language|Kyrgyz]], [[Tatar language|Tatar]], and [[German language|German]]. English, as well as Turkish, have gained popularity among younger people since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Education across Kazakhstan is conducted in either Kazakh, Russian, or both.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stat.gov.kz/getImg?id=ESTAT091498|title=Kazakhstan in 2013|work=Ministry of National Economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan Committee on Statistics|date=2014|page=33|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150929031425/http://www.stat.gov.kz/getImg?id=ESTAT091498|archive-date=29 September 2015}}</ref> In Nazarbayev's resignation speech of 2019, he projected that the people of Kazakhstan in the future will speak three languages (Kazakh, Russian and English).<ref>{{cite web|title=Address of the Head of State Nursultan Nazarbayev to the people of Kazakhstan|url=http://kazakhstanun.com/address-of-the-head-of-state-nursultan-nazarbayev-to-the-people-of-kazakhstan/|publisher=Mission of Kazakhstan to the United Nations|date=19 March 2019|access-date=22 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190322165432/http://kazakhstanun.com/address-of-the-head-of-state-nursultan-nazarbayev-to-the-people-of-kazakhstan/|archive-date=22 March 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>