Kazakh
Kazakh is a Turkic language from the Central Asian country of Kazakhstan, closely related to Turkish, Uzbek, and Tartar. It is spoken by about 12 million people in Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Russia, and Iran. Learning the Kazakh language can help unlock the other Central Asian Turkic languages, as they are very similar. Kazakh is on the U.S. State Department list of critical languages and knowing Kazakh may lead to special professional opportunities in business or government careers.
Introductory Course
GNS 331: First Semester Kazakh
Department
Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic
Advisor
Joanna Schuth, jschuth@wisc.edu
If you have background in Kazakh, either through formal study, informal study, or as a heritage learner, contact the advisor listed above for placement information.
Central Eurasian Studies Summer Institute (CESSI), an intensive summer language institute at UW-Madison, for beginning and intermediate Kazakh.
Funding is available for both undergraduate and graduate students to study Kazakh through CESSI.
Contact Gulnara Glowacki, gglowacki@wisc.edu, for details.