Karakalpak

Karakalpak (Қарақалпақ тили / Qaraqalpaq tili)

Karakalpak is a member of the Kypchak branch of Turkic languages. It is
spoken by about 412,000 people in the Karakalpakstan Autonomous Republic
in Uzbekistan, where the language has official status. There are some
Karakalpak speakers in Afghanistan, Russia, Kazakhstan and Turkey as well.

Karakalpak is most closely related to Kazakh and
Nogai, and has absorbed a lot of vocabulary and some grammar from Uzbek
as well.

Until 1928, Karakalpak was written with the Arabic alphabet. Then from 1928
to 1940 it written the Latin alphabet, after which the Cyrillic alphabet
was used. Since 1994, the Cyrillic alphabet has gradually been replaced by
the Latin alphabet.

Karakalpak Arabic alphabet

Karakalpak Arabic alphabet

Karakalpak Cyrillic alphabet (қарақалпақ әлипбеси)

Karakalpak Latin alphabet

Karakalpak Latin alphabet (qaraqalpaq a’lipbesi)

Karakalpak Latin alphabet

Sample text in Karakalpak (The Lord’s Prayer)

Sample text in Karakalpak (The Lord's Prayer)

Transliteration

Sonlıqtan sizler bılay dep duwa etin’ler: Aspandag’ı
A’kemiz. Senin’ atın’ muxaddes bola bersin. Senin’ Patshalıg’ın’
kelsin. Aspanda orınlang’anı sıyaqlı, jerde de
Senin’ erkin’ orıinlansın. Bizlerge bu’gin de ku’ndelikli
nanımızdı bere go’r. Bizlerge gu’na islegenlerdi
keshirgenimizdey, bizlerdin’ de gu’nalarımızdı
keshire go’r. Bizlerdi sınaqqa tu’sirmey, shaytannan qutqara
go’r. Awmiyin.

Source: http://www.language-museum.com/encyclopedia/k/karakalpak.php

Tower of Babel in Karakalpak

Links

Information about the Karakalpak language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karakalpak_language
http://karakalpak.com/language.html
http://www.ozturkler.com/data_english/0007/0007_10_04.htm

Information about the Karakalpak people and Karakalpakstan
http://karakalpak.com
http://karakalpak.homestead.com/

Video of people speaking Karakalpak
http://youtube.com/watch?v=NCMJkvRepbQ

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