#kazakh language

[iloveannaliese]

Ruslana Korshunova mid 2000’s 🎀❄️

#coquette #y2k #y2k aesthetic #pink aesthetic #snow #wintercore #ruslana korshunova #fashion model #fashion #cold weather #cold #clothing #clothes #vlada roslyakova #russian model #kazakhstan #kazakh language #beautiful model #moodboard #pastel pink #pinkcore #white snow #snowflake #2008 #2005 #2007 #2006 #early 2000s #mid 2000s #pretty

[random-kazakh-stuff]

Another interesting thing about how Russian Empire/USSR operated is in names. Both for people and places.

Exhibit A: The apparent Russification of all names. Names that are Kazakh, but you need to write the official documents in Russian so they don't come out quite right. One of the already mentioned examples is with patronymics: Russian -ev and -eva and etc. added to Kazakh names. There is also the matter of pronunciation, the "special"* letters of Kazakh cyrillic being omitted which lead to butchered names.

Exhibit B: The names of towns and regions. They were all either named from Russian language, or had their names bent in a strange way. Example for the first one is Tselinograd(modern Astana) which means "Town of virgin lands"*. The second one is Alma-ata(current Almaty) which written in this way means "Apple grandfather" while the modern one just means...appley(?). There is no adjective for apple in English so bear with me. There also examples of this where the meaning doesn't change, and the spelling is strange for no apparent reason. Example: Kzyl-Orda(nowadays Qyzylorda) which omitted a vowel and added a dash just because.

Both examples are interesting in a way that they don't really seem significant, but deny an ability to control a small part of life for the natives. Think of it. It's the names you give your own children, the name of a place where you live, being not completely yours, looking not right.

Edit: I am sorry, I forget to mention that this applies to all empires. In general, when I talk about some phenomenas or culture things, I am aware that they are not exclusive to Kazakh and Kazakhstan's history, but this is what I know. The additions are welcome though!

*the development of virgin lands(Tselina) is a time in 50s and 60s of XX century when USSR decided that actually, the steppes of Northern Kazakhstan are actually very good for agriculture, the natives were just stupid. The soil there deteriorated by 15-20%. The immediate results were quite nice though.

the natives are just stupid part is meant to be ironic btw

Also a reminder! Ask me questions. I am more motivated by them.

#kazakhstan #kazakh #kazakh culture #kazakh language #USSR #also god writing these without constantly trying to explain the background is so hard #cause there is so much background #and the latinizing it is torture

[ziel-rambles]

I have a question for Kazakh people

I have a question for Kazakh people, i hope you answer it!!

I'm writing a Kazakh character. I found the name ''Arma'' years ago, which I think means ''dream'' or related to that. I found other meanings from other cultures too. But I always imagined the character as Kazakh. My question is, can you use Arma as a real name? or is it just a word?

And do you have any recommendations for how to write a more accurate Kazakh character? What would you want to see from a Kazakh character?

(the story is placed in a fictional country, that has people from different cultures from our world.)

#kazakh writers #kazakh culture #kazakh language #kazakh reader

[magnetictapedatastorage]

my first words in kazakh: the worlds most linguistically broken sex joke.

ас болсын: bon apetit

ам: pussy

ам болсын: very broken... “let vagina happen” / “let everything go bad”

#Kazakh language #paint #with apologies to every person in kazakhstan

[littleduke]

#qazaqstan #qazaq language #kazakhstan #kazakh language #langbr #langblr

[riddlemefuckingthis]

Turkic languages are so cool. You’re telling me you have one pronoun for everyone?!?! That so fucking amazing. That means you don’t have to go out of your way to say he/him, she/her, and they/them?!!?!?

#Turkic languages #turkic #turkish #uzbekistan #kazakh language

[newsbites]

Issatayeva expects the app to have one million users by the fall of 2023 and become the number one app for the development of Kazakh culture and language.

“We are considering working with training centers, schools, and kindergartens, preparing materials and testing,” she said.

#kazakh language #schools #kids #folklore #news #kazakhstan #world news

[placegrenette]

By sheer coincidence, within a week of my watching Kana Beisekeyev’s documentary on the Kazakh language, RFE/RL has a story on the Almaty-based Kazakh-language club featured in the movie, and Aleksei Skalozubov, its native-Russian-speaking founder (who doesn’t get named in the movie, since that’s not how KB rolls). This story gives a little bit of context about a potential resurgence in Kazakh interest since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, including by brand-new, never-intended-to-move-there potential Kazakhstanis. I can’t say what the role of Kazakhstani authorities is in all this, but the combination of the movie and the story feel more bottom-up than top-down, people learning the Kazakh language because they want to, rather than being required to.

#kazakh language #qazaq tili #in other news i have finally figured out the difference between cards notes and fields in anki #which is a useful program but whoo the learning curve #language learning #(is not easy!)

[tallgothamgirl]

Kazakh songs give winter vibes 🤍🍨

- this one was recommended by my honey 🍨💕

Here is the what the original picture looked like:

I blurred our faces for the sake of privacy, but even then I think you easily can tell he’s the Asian one and I am very much European.

But the AI clearly thought otherwise 😹😹:

I look more Kazakh then he does 😹😹! Also why is my man bolding 😹? Ayii, they really did him dirty … 🥲

#Spotify #kazakh language #Kazakh music #couples #winter #aiartlove #ai artwork #digital art #czech artist #romantic #shoujo manga #romance

[languagexs]

Interpreting the Kazakh or Kazak Language: A Journey Through Eurasian Culture and Linguistics

Unveiling the Kazak Language: A Window into Eurasian Culture The Kazak language is a linguistic treasure that serves as a gateway to understanding the rich cultural tapestry of the Eurasian region. With over 10 million speakers, it is the official language of Kazakhstan and a significant lingua franca across Central Asia. This article delves into the intricacies of the Kazakh language, its…

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#Central Asia #cultural preservation #kazak language #Kazakh alphabet #Kazakh language #LanguageXS #Linguistic features kazak language #professional translation services #Turkic languages

[random-kazakh-stuff]

There is a lot of interesting stuff you can pick up from someone's full name in Kazakhstan.

For example if their name starts with "Zhūma", they were born on Friday. This comes from Islam and might be shared across other Islamic countries.

Or if their name starts with "Ūl" they are not only a girl, but a girl in a family that Really wants an heir(a boy), so they name their daughter Ūlzhan or Ūlbolsyn(meaning "Boy soul" and "Please be a boy next time"(I am really not sure how to translate this sry))

Sometimes you can tell the person's grandfather's name from their surname because it is fairly common to give it instead of sharing the parents' surname.

Also some names are constructed directly from Kazakh language, so you can get someone named Aisūltan(Sultan/lord of the moon) or Altyngúl(Golden flower). Honestly, I think this is just neat.

There is also the patronymic that can either end in either Russian or Kazakh suffixes even if the person is Kazakh. If they are relatively old they probably just didn't go through trouble of changing the documents, but if they were born after the independency, then their parents chose whichever was more appealing to them.(which can tell a bit about the parents).

This is more of an observation/anecdote but if the person looks Asian, but have a Russian first name they are likely Korean.

#kazakh #kazakhstan #kazakh culture #kazakh language #kazakhstan culture #the short story of why there are even enough koreans to make such an observation #is that they were deported to kazakhstan in times of USSR #probably will write up a post about how like a LOT of people ended up in Kazakhstan this way #huh maybe person's name tells you more about their parents and not them.....

[kutyozh]

okayy maybe i'm exceptionally late to the party as usual but i just found this website called Glottolog

and what it is is basically a language catalogue. you can look up a specific language's family tree and this is useful etc etc but the real reason i'm showing you this is the following:

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so i just looked up kazakh via the "languages tab". you can search languages by name, top-level family, macro area, number of child dialects, latitude, longitude, and, if you happen to know it, ISO-639-3 or glottocode (the website's own code).

I searched via language name, and when I clicked Kazakh, I got this:

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a handy tree that shows me where exactly the language is located within its language family. if I scroll down it'll tell me whether or not that language is endangered, AND, IF I SCROLL FURTHER DOWN:

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it gives an entire list of resources for that specific language!!! I cropped the screenshot for readability purposes but the columns in this table are name (as in author), title (of the resource), any field (idk what that's supposed to be sorry), year, pages (as in how many pages does the resource have), doctype (e.g. grammar, dictionary etc.), and provider. the latter refers to the source bibliography that the resource was taken from.

now, this list won't conveniently link you to free pdfs of these resources, but it does give you the exact citation of the work if you click on 'citation' right next to the resource:

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so I think it's a great start for research, especially for languages that don't have many learners.

happy researching!!!

#langblr #lingblr #language resources #resources #. i didn't know this existed lmaooo #. but it's neat #. it lists a grammar sketch about kazakh in german which is awesome #r.link

[qforqazaq]

Just a good snapshot on what Turkic people are, and why I keep saying Turkic does not equal Turkish.

Also, if you want to get into the whole "Mamluk Kipchaks who ended up ruling over countries where they were sold as slaves", just Google "Sultan Beibarys".

Spoiler: a Kipchak boy sold as a slave in Egypt, ends up ruling it.

Cheers.

#turkic #turkic languages #pan turkism #kazakh #kipchak #oghuz #oghur #siberia #karluk #golden horde #turkic khaganate #qazaq #sultan Beibarys #mamluk #sultan baybars #Youtube #that sounds like a flashy news tag

[magnetictapedatastorage]

Sigma kingerdardener grindset

#Kazakh language

[juregim]

one thing that’s been kinda bewildering to watch over the last few years is the slow and steady income of black people to Kazakhstan. and it’s like. why HERE? like. we always had a very ethnically diverse population, kazakhs, russians, chinese, koreans, germans etc etc but it’s all very explainable with history. and our universities have some kind of agreement with India, so that explains the influx young Indians and Pakistanis to cities. but like. before 2015 i think the only black people in Kazakhstan were kids of mixed marriages where one parent was African and studied in university in USSR and businessmen here on short work trips. but like today i saw a black security guard at pull and bear. and last week there was a new barista in the coffee shop close to my office. and i’m obviously not saying it in like an angry/racist way im more like. why Kazakhstan? literally what do we have here that made u wanna move HERE?

#literally if i wasn’t born here i would wanna like maybe visit just for the sights but MOVING here??? why #there’s a pretty short list of places this would be an improvement over and that’s not counting the fact that both russian and kazakh #are very difficult languages to learn #and i’m self aware in knowing people don’t fucking know about Kazakhstan. like how do u even find out and decide to move here #ig the students are like offered these by their schools/unis but other than that i’m so so lost

[yurucamp]

Привет! это я, и я все еще учу русский язык! У меня вопрос... как твоя жизнь в России? Меня интересует русская культура

(i hope my russian is good enough, sorry for any erorrs. it is indeed me, the guy who asked about learning russian a while ago :) )

привет друг изучающий русский! я живу в казахстане и не в россии, и поэтому мои впечатления отличаются. я обожаю казахстан, люди вообще очень добрые и гостеприимные. где я живу, почти все говорят по русский, но есть пересечение культур (и казахская и тюркская и русская и корейская, т.д.), которое мне нравится, и я тоже чуть-чуть изучаю казахский язык ну я могу долго обсуждать это! и не волнуйтесь, нет никаких проблем, я сама говорю с многими ошибками, самое главное- ясность значения

моя фотка алматы :-) как я считаю, самый красивый город в мире

#i should say #almost everyone speaks russian /to me/ as kazakh is very much a living and thriving language which enjoys widespread use