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official status of Kazakh from Kazakhstan's laws."],"mustNot":["Treat Kazakh as a dialect of Russian or another language.","Mix Cyrillic and Latin Kazakh orthographies in one text without saying so.","Use language ability to judge a person's loyalty or ethnicity."],"requiresHuman":["Publishing official or legal translations into Kazakh."]},"ethics":{"considerations":["Kazakh revival after Soviet policy is tied to identity; tools that neglect it marginalize speakers.","Script reform affects literacy and access for different generations."],"affectedParties":["Kazakh speakers","Learners","Kazakh communities abroad"]},"owners":{"steward":"Nobody owns it; the language belongs to its speakers, with Kazakhstan's language authorities setting the standard.","roles":[],"masterSystems":[]},"relations":[{"target":"Q4326954","type":"parent","note":"registry parent class"},{"target":"Kipchak-Nogai languages","type":"related","note":"in registry terms"},{"target":"Turkic 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script."]},"capabilities":{"applicability":"required","items":["explain dialects and scripts","relay grammar and history","describe status","distinguish from related languages"]},"hazards":{"applicability":"required","items":["Confusing Kazakh with Kyrgyz or Cossack","Stale script information during the transition","Political framing of language policy"]},"interfaces":{"applicability":"required","items":["Kazakhstan language law and Latin alphabet decrees","ISO 639 codes","Terminology commissions"]},"context":{"applicability":"required","items":["Not applicable; a language.","Standard Kazakh","Western Kazakh dialect","Northeastern Kazakh dialect","Southern Kazakh dialect","Kazakh in Arabic script in China","Kazakh in Cyrillic and Latin scripts"]}},"sources":[{"title":"Wikidata item Q9252: Kazakh","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9252","note":"identity and sense of the item"},{"title":"Wikipedia: Kazakh language","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakh_language","note":"general 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