Kyrgyz people
Turkic ethnic group native to Central Asia, primarily Kyrgyzstan
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Summary
Kyrgyz people is an ethnic group[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of ethnic group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,169 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Native language: Kyrgyz[3]
- Religion or worldview: Sunni Islam[4]
- Country: Kyrgyzstan[5], Uzbekistan[6], People's Republic of China[7], Russia[8], Tajikistan[9], Kazakhstan[10], Turkey[11], Afghanistan[12], Ukraine[13], United States[14], Canada[15], Italy[16]
- Instance of: ethnolinguistic group[17]
- Location: Central Asia[18]
- Subclass of: Turkic peoples[19], Central Asian people[20]
- Part of: Turkic peoples[21]
- Commons category: Kyrgyz people[22]
- Topic's main category: Category:Ethnic Kyrgyz people[23]
- Population: 6,000,000[24]
- Described by source: Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[25], Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[26], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[27], Infernal Dictionary, 6th ed.[28], Larousse Encyclopedia online[29], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[30], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[31], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5[32], Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[33], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[34]
- Languages spoken, written or signed: Kyrgyz[35]
- Different from: Kyrgyzstanis[36], Kyrgyz[37]
- Indigenous to: Central Asia[38]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject PCC Wikidata Pilot/University of Washington[39], WikiProject Ukraine[40]
Why It Matters
Kyrgyz people has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[41] It is known by 100 alternative names across languages and contexts.[42]