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What is Kyrgyz and how is it related to Kazakh?

Kyrgyz (Кыргызча) is a Kipchak Turkic language and the official language of Kyrgyzstan, with around 5 million speakers. It is most closely related to Kazakh and Karakalpak. Modern Kyrgyz uses a 36-letter Cyrillic alphabet adopted in 1940; an earlier Latin alphabet was used 1928–1940. The Manas epic, one of the world's longest oral works, has been preserved in Kyrgyz for centuries.

What grammar features does Kyrgyz have?

Kyrgyz is agglutinative, with SOV word order, no grammatical gender, and full vowel harmony — suffixes change shape to match the front/back and rounded/unrounded vowels of the root (бала 'child' → балалар 'children', ат 'horse' → аттар, but the rounded ат 'name' → аттар). Six noun cases. LingoBear lets you see these in real text.