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Locale Ky 001

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Use when working with the Kyrgyz locale (`ky-001`) — its endonym Кыргызча, Cyrillic script, left-to-right (LTR) direction, or spoken-population data. Reference data and translation guidance (register, grammar, idiom, typography) for this specific locale; see [[locale]] for general i18n/l10n concepts (BCP 47, plural rules, RTL) that apply across all locales.

Reference data for the Kyrgyz locale — endonym Кыргызча, written in the Cyrillic script, left-to-right (LTR).

Identifiers

  • BCP 47 tag: ky-001
  • ISO 639-1: ky
  • ISO 639-3: kir
  • Script: Cyrl (Cyrillic)
  • Region: 001 (World)
  • Text direction: ltr — left-to-right (LTR)

Speakers (approximate)

  • L1 (native): 5,600,000
  • L2 (additional): 700,000
  • L1+L2 (total): 6,300,000

Regional variants

This is the base/macro locale for Kyrgyz. Region-specific variants in this dataset:

Pluralization

CLDR plural categories for this locale: one, other (2 forms).

  • one — n = 1 (e.g. 1)
  • other — everything else (e.g. 0, 2~16, 100, 1000, …)

See Unicode Messageformat for writing plural messages using these categories.

Translating into this locale

Kyrgyz is a Turkic language written in Cyrillic with the extra letters ң, ө, ү. See Locale Ky Kg.

Translate ideas, not words.

  • Kyrgyz is agglutinative with vowel harmony and subject-object-verb order. Do not translate through Russian; restructure English sentences.
  • Use Kyrgyz terminology from the national language institutions when a term exists, rather than raw Russian loanwords.
  • Re-express idioms by meaning.

Grammar and register.

  • Vowel harmony (front/back, rounded/unrounded); six cases; no gender; no plural after numerals.
  • Сиз is the polite form for UI and public text; сен is informal.

Orthography and typography.

  • Use ң, ө, ү; never replace them with Russian look-alikes.
  • Currency som; decimal comma; dates as in Russian; 24-hour clock; quotation marks «…».

Common pitfalls

  • Replacing Kyrgyz letters with Russian look-alikes.
  • Using Russian syntax.
  • Breaking vowel harmony.

Learn more

  • Locale for BCP 47 identifiers, locale-sensitive formatting, pluralization, and text-direction concepts that apply across all locales.
  • Unicode Messageformat for writing plural/selection messages correctly for this locale's grammar.
  • National Commission for the State Language, Kyrgyzstan
  • Unicode CLDR locale data for ky (https://cldr.unicode.org)

View locale-ky-001/SKILL.md on GitHub