Athousand years ago,the kazakh language didn't exist. the main language of communication in central asia was old turkis. the old turkis alphabet was diffrent from language todey. many historians think that people began to comunicate in kazakh in the 17th century, but it didn't have a written form. storytellers or akyns travelled from one village to another, telling stories from kazakh history. kazakh wasn't written dawn until the second half of the 19th centry,when educated people such as aday kunanbayev wrote about their country in kazakh.at first, kazakh was written in the arabis script, and this continued until the 1920s/ then for a time many people wrote the language in the roman alphabet.after 1940, kazakh was written in the russian cyrillic alphabet . these changes to the written form explain why in some countries ( for example china ) kazakh is writter in the arabs script and in ofter places it is written in cyrillic. over 18 million people speak kazakh in the world today about 16 million in kkazakhstan 1.2 million in china 500,000 in rassian and 100,000 in mongolia.smaller numbers of people speak the language in iran and afghanistan, turkey and germany. in kazakhstan itseif about half the people speak kazakh as their first language and about half speak russian.manu people can speak both. many kazakh words descride a traditional way of life in kazakhstan.for example balykshi and eginshi descride traditional jobs.so if people can understand kazakh, it helps them understand the history snd culture of kazakhstan. kazakhstan is home to many diffrent people who have diffrent traditions and languages.on 22nd september every year there is a 'day of languages' which celebrates all the language people speak in the countrym перевести)
