| LC control no. | sh 85071825 |
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| Topical heading | Kazakhs |
| Variant(s) | Kazaks Kirghiz-Kaissacks Kirghiz-Kazaks Qazaqs |
| See also | Ethnology--China Ethnology--Kazakhstan Turkic peoples |
| Found in | Lee, Joo-Yup. Qazaqlïq, or ambitious brigandage, and the formation of the Qazaqs, 2016: p. 1 (my study focuses on the Qazaqs (Kazakhs), who emerged as a new nomadic people in the sixteenth century) Oxford Lexico website, Feb. 24, 2022 (Kazakh (plural noun Kazakh, plural noun Kazakhs) 1. A member of a people living chiefly in Kazakhstan. Traditionally nomadic, the Kazakh are predominantly Sunni Muslims. 2. The Turkic language of the Kazakh.) American heritage dictionary of the English language, ©2016, via TheFreeDictionary website, Feb. 24, 2022 (Kazakh, n. pl. Kazakhs or Kazakh 1. a. A native or inhabitant of Kazakhstan. b. A person of Kazakh ancestry. c. A member of a Turkic people inhabiting Kazakhstan and parts of Xinjiang in China. 2. The Turkic language of the Kazakhs.) Britannica online, Feb. 24, 2022 (Kazakh, also spelled Kazak, Turkic-speaking people of Central Asia inhabiting mainly Kazakhstan and the adjacent parts of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China. The Kazakhs emerged in the 15th century from an amalgam of Turkic tribes who entered Transoxiana about the 8th century and of Mongols who entered the area in the 13th century. They speak Kazakh, a Turkic language of the northwestern, or Kipchak, branch, and predominantly practice Sunni Islam. At the beginning of the 21st century there were roughly 10,000,000 Kazakhs in Kazakhstan and about 1,400,000 in China (mainly in Xinjiang), with small numbers in Uzbekistan, Russia, and Mongolia. The Kazakhs are the second most numerous Turkic-speaking people in Central Asia after the Uzbeks) |
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