Kyrgyz Language: Facts for Translators

Kyrgyz (ky, kir) is a world language. Wikidata records about 4.6M speakers. It is written in Arabic alphabet and Cyrillic script. It is an official language in 1 country, including Kyrgyzstan.

4.6M

Speakers

$0.12–0.28

Indicative rate / word

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Where Kyrgyz is official

Kyrgyzstan

Rates for Kyrgyz translation

Kyrgyz falls in our lesser-diffused languages band: roughly $0.12–$0.28 per word for general commercial work. These are indicative ranges, not quotes — specialised, certified and rush work costs more, and literary translation is usually priced per 1,000 words.

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From Wikipedia

Kyrgyz is a Turkic language of the Kipchak branch spoken in Central Asia. It is the official language of Kyrgyzstan and a significant minority language in the Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture in Xinjiang, China and in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region of Tajikistan. There is a very high level of mutual intelligibility between Kyrgyz, Kazakh, and Altay. A dialect of Kyrgyz known as Pamiri Kyrgyz is spoken in north-eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan. Kyrgyz is also spoken by many ethnic Kyrgyz through the former Soviet Union, Afghanistan, Turkey, parts of northern Pakistan, and Russia.