Kazakhstan

To which language should you translate to localize in Kazakhstan?

Official language

Kazakh (64.4%; 13 mln)

Actual languages

Kazakh (64.4%; 13 mln), Russian (19%; 3.86 mln), Ukrainian (5%; 1 mln), German (3.1%; 630k), Uzbek (2.3%; 467k), Tatar (2%; 406k), other (4.2%; 853k)

What the top 150 best localized websites in the world do in Kazakhstan

(Top 150 websites listed in the Global by Design ranking – published annually by Byte Level Research, this report provides a list of globally localized websites, showcasing best practices and emerging trends in their globalization)

• 26/150 localize by translating into Russian.
• 20/150 localize by translating into both Russian and Kazakh.
• 4/150 localize by translating into Kazakh.
• 1/150 localizes by translating into both Kazakh (Cyrillic) and Kazakh (Arabic).
• 1/150 localizes by translating into both Russian and Simplified Chinese.
• 1/150 localizes by translating into Russian, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Bahasa Indonesia, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Turkish, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Thai and Ukrainian.
• 1/150 localizes by translating into Slovak.
• 1/150 localizes by translating into French.