Kyrgyz

Bishkek's national language

Kyrgyz refers to a Turkic people native to Central Asia, primarily Kyrgyzstan, or their language.

The Kyrgyz language belongs to the Turkic family and uses Cyrillic script.

As an adjective, it describes things relating to this people, their culture, or their nation: Kyrgyz traditions, the Kyrgyz language.

nomadic

yurt

Felt-covered nomad tent

flock · grazing · shepherding · livestock · seasonal · encampment · felt · migration · pasture · seminomadic

ethnicity

Turkic

Central Asian language family

  • clanRelated group sharing ancestry
  • tribeSocial group sharing ancestry
  • UzbekCentral Asian Turkic speaker

Tajik · Uyghur · Russian · minority · diaspora · kinship · lineage · genealogy

Central-Asian

steppe

Treeless Eurasian grassland

Tajikistan · Turkmenistan · post-Soviet · crossroads · caravanserai · heartland · geopolitics · CIS · borders · enclave

culture

epic

Impressively grand in scope

geography

landlocked

Having no sea access

glaciers

Turkic

Uzbek

Central Asian Turkic speaker

Tatar · Altai · Chagatai · cognate · agglutinative

cuisine

nan

Grandmother, in Britain

Opposites
Central Asian ethnic/national identity

KyrgyzAmerican

From the U.S.

European · Western · Uzbek · Tajik · Russian

Family

Kyrgyzstan

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G