karakalpak language

colspan="2" bgcolor=yellowgreen style="font-size:120%"\|Karakalpak/ Qaraqalpaq
valign="top"\|Spoken in:	Uzbekistan, Afghanistan
valign="top"\|Region:	Karakalpakstan
valign="top"\|Total speakers:	409,000 (1993)
valign="top"\|Ranking:	not listed
valign="top"\|Genetic classification:	Altaic (disputed) Turkic Kipchak-Nogay Aralo-Caspian Karakalpak
colspan="2" bgcolor=yellowgreen\|Official status
valign="top"\|Official language of:	valign="top"\|-
valign="top"\|Regulated by:	valign="top"\| -
colspan="2" bgcolor=yellowgreen\|Language codes
SO 639-2	kaa
a href="/encyclopedia/SIL" title="SIL">SIL	KAC

Karakalpak is a Northwestern Turkic language mainly spoken mostly by Karakalpaks in Karakalpakstan (Uzbekistan), along the lower Amu Darya river, and around the southern part of the Aral Sea. Small groups of speakers also live in Afghanistan (probably fewer than 2000 speakers), Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkmenistan. Karakalpak was written in the Arabic alphabet until 1928, in the Latin alphabet (with additional characters) from 1928 to 1940, and is usually written in the Cyrillic alphabet (with additional characters) today, although there seems to be a trend to return to the Latin alphabet after the end of the Soviet era.

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