Kazakh is natively spoken by about 13 million people, primarily in Kazakhstan, where it is the official language, and in neighboring countries with Kazakh communities. It is integral to Kazakh cultural identity, known for its nomadic heritage, traditional music, and hospitality. Written in the Cyrillic alphabet (and transitioning to the Latin alphabet), Kazakh grammar features a subject-object-verb (SOV) word order, vowel harmony, and agglutination, where suffixes are added to roots to modify meaning.