Kazakhstan’s Unknown Diversity (Ethnic Groups & Languages)

[@turkchap]

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[@HappyVibes535]

Already done. Great work, lad.

[@rajababbasov8666]

@Turkchap I dont know what you know about meskhetian turks but we're not all turks our history is being written incorrectly allot of us are Georgians, Armenian, kurd and turks we are a mix community and our language is mixture of turkic and russian with some Georgian our food is more georgian some turkic. We are meskhetians who adopted islam over time and the turkic language due to the ottomans please when you do another video or just one for our people do it correctly our dna is majority georgian not all of us have high number of turkic me in general I have very low turkic blood and it's more central asian and that's because I believe when the kipchaks and georgians were allies at once. Thank you.

[@TarlanT]

Great work bro! Mükemmel! 🇰🇿🇹🇷👍 If you’d have drawn this map for Kazakhstan of 1991, Kazakhs would NOT have been the majority on roughly 60-70% of the map.😢 But things are changing for the best.

[@tatar.prince]

i am from kazakhstan, when i went to germany for uni, i met quite many kazakh germans. what was interesting for me is that they were actually german speakers, and they told me that in germany they would get sometimes bullied as they spoke alt Deutsch, the dialects of German from 18th century from different regions of Germany. so, for contemporary germans it sounds outdated and funny, and their children just continued with the modern german, which is kinda sad, as in kazakhstan the language was preserved and now it is lost

[@Fortify2030]

In Russian Empire "nemtsy" was a common nickname for both germans and dutch (holland and flanders regions). So their ancestors could be dutch actually.

[@tatar.prince]

​@Fortify2030 yeap, but in this case it is german, bcs everything is understandable, just the pronunciation and word choice is "outdated"

[@BigBlackBehemoth]

In which uni did you study?

[@Сапаров-л6м]

Я живу в Казахстане и никогда не встречал казахстанских немцев которые умели разговаривать на немецком

[@tatar.prince]

@@BigBlackBehemoth Bayreuth University

[@arnie4923]

When i was in junior school in Kostanay, Kazakhstan. I had German, Polish, Ukrainian, Korean, Tatar, Russian and of course Kazakh people in my class. I did not know that this was not the case for other countries and didn’t even know that they were of other nationalities back then.

[@Suea-b8g]

We may be not Kazakhs, but we are indeed all are Kazakhstani. 😊

[@ChrOmeAB]

The same situation here. Kostanay is very diverse. Also i am tatar :) There's a lot of tatar toponyms in Kostanay

[@sapporinsanbo3609]

​@@ChrOmeABits not tatar toponyms, that is mistakenly wrong Tatars never lived in Kostanay, they are living near to river Volga.

[@ChrOmeAB]

@ one of the first tatar place in Kostanay is "Narimanovsky bazar", and this is totally tatar toponyhm. Also "Narimanovsky district". You can google it. There was a big community of tatars

[@__Man__]

Young people in Kazakhstan are mostly Kazakhs, ethnic Russians have less kids than average Kazakhs.

[@General-rotty-memnoi-papki]

It is true that the birth rate of Kazakhs in Kazakhstan is 3.62, while for Russians this figure is 1.36.

[@__Man__]

@General-rotty-memnoi-papki yes, I think it is the current global problem of Europeans, they tend to have less kids than non-European ethnicities either rich or poor. In Kazakhstan, we can see the extreme difference of family development and culture between Kazakhs and ethnic Russians.

[@numu4913]

@@__Man__ Not that true, fertility is very contagious in our nation, to that level, that even Russians have higher fertility rate in Kazakhstan rather than Russians in Russia, that also accountable for other ethnicities, such as koreans, ukrainians, polish, german and others. So we could say, that german people from Kazakhstan will have more chances having a baby in Kazakhstan rather than a same couple in Germany

[@БекзатБахыт-л6ю]

​@__Man__ I am Kazah and I think, it's because we live near Russia (120 million population) and China (1.4 billion) It's too bad when you have only 20 milion people in country and have teritoria like 1/4 of full Europe + some tragedy story of 300 years occupation by Russian Empire/Soviet union , Where we have standard thing of crime by power

[@swairmj7224]

But in case of Kazakhstan this is good, Kazakhstan is for kazakhs​@@__Man__

[@iqmi_3]

Oh my god. I’m from Kazakhstan, I watched your videos with such joy and now I can enjoy a video about my homeland! Thank you!!!!

[@turkchap]

Glad you enjoyed it! I spent 3 sleepless days to learn as much as I could about the country. Kazakhstan blew my mind. I think I gotta start looking for some plane tickets for spring :)

[@lumie_adri]

I'm also from Kazakhstan and I enjoy watching your videos!!! ❤❤

[@BaconatorV420]

i havent met a single person from kazakhstan in youtube until now, crazy. now i know im enjoying youtube with my kazakh brothers

[@qwer2661]

@@BaconatorV420 ахпхапх они есть

[@adrianvelez4147]

My mother is german and told me she met a few repatriated kazakh germans. According to her they were almost indistinguishable from most other germans besides reportedly having a strange accent. great video! i hope this comment boosts you in the yt algorithm

[@stkosta2482]

Everyone in Germany has their own accent, so not that strange.

[@turkchap]

That must be very interesting to maintain the German language for years in a country quite far away from Germany. Very interesting story my friend ❤

[@Suea-b8g]

​@@turkchapIn fact right after USSR collapse there were that many Germans in Northern Kazakhstan, that in 1991 German students protested and demanded of creating German Autonomy in Akmola oblast. Read about that, it's very interesting.

[@yernur_ismailov]

Diversity is our proud and strength. I love and respect all the ethnicities of our big country! 🇰🇿

[@dude7127]

It should be noted that the Volga Germans and Crimean Tatars were prohibited from returning to their homeland until the 90s.

[@turkchap]

Really? What was the reason for that?

[@greenhawk6839]

@@turkchap The Crimean Tatars were deemed important for the industrialisation of Central Asia, their homeland was a strategic location, and their land had been given to Russian settlers.

[@hirokitokuyama]

​@@turkchapthe reason is that they were deported irreasonably by Stalin (which is basically warcrime, if not genocide) And further they basically couldn't return home because of absurd Soviet policy of resettlement - basically people are settled there where government wanted to do something like industrialization or whatever, no matter if people wanted it and if they will be payed well (spoiler: almost no job in USSR was well-paid)

[@dorinpopa6962]

​@@greenhawk6839 the motivation was the widespread collaboration of Crimean Tatars during WWII with Germany up to including ethnic cleansing operations. It was deemed difficult to sort out who was implicated and to what degree especially in a close knit society like the Tatars of the time. Also, there was no settlement program in Crimea. Crimea was already majority Russian even before the USSR through the settlement policies under the Russian Empire. As for the Volga Germans, they were preemptively deported in fears of potential collaboration during the war. I don't think it was the best solution for the problem, but I wanted to give the actual reasons that the USSR had for it and not some BS.

[@cat_man_pls]

Because according to the plan of Stalin and USSR, Kazakh nation needed to forgot their history and their nation and USSR and Stalin wanted to mix up Kazakh nation with other

[@hamster8706]

I have a classmate who is Kazakh. Never could've conceivably guessed that his country was so diverse. Artificially diverse because of Stalin, but diverse nonetheless.

[@dude7127]

This is not only because of Dzhugashvilli. This was and remains Russian policy before and after him. Deporting people, mixing them with other people and forcing them all to learn Russian and identify themselves as Russian (or Soviet). Thank God, they did not succeed in this in Kazakhstan.

[@Adil_Turysbek_TVRC]

Before Stalin slavs were already migrating to Kazakh territories (during Tsars).

[@БекзатБахыт-л6ю]

​@@Adil_Turysbek_TVRC Yep migrated, by killing people, which don't want give their house to "new" villager or to "new" citizen of "new" city Standart colonization story of world

[@CenturionKZ]

@@Adil_Turysbek_TVRC yes, more like invading

[@mossiempire712]

Such good quality and so little views, it’s a shame the algorithm hasn’t found this gold!

[@turkchap]

Thank you, I appreciate it ❤ Thanks to a great audience like you, growing slowly but steadily.

[@mossiempire712]

@@turkchap True, true

[@InsideOmori]

Kazakhstan is one of the best countries in protecting the rights of minorities without humiliating or oppressing other nations

[@rea1m_]

The result is that kazakish kazakhs themselves are now oppressed and humiliated

[@Олег-ж3с3т]

Казахстан это нацисткое государство где все не казахи второй сорт. Узбекистан, Таджикистан, Киргизия, Туркменистан точно такие же, но так как они мононациональные, там это не так заметно, а вот в Казахстане это очень заметно .

[@pulaPA02]

Lol

[@recreationp5714]

Complete bs

[@batujanibek]

Completely opposite

[@user-wq7oo1uy9d]

The most grateful people for Kazakhs are Germans, Chechens (all Caucasian peoples), Ukrainians, they are not like us, but they always respond well to us and accept our culture.

[@БейбарысЖаңабайұлы-и1ч]

лучшая благодарность от немцев, чеченцев, украинцев это держаться подальше от казашек, большой благодарности от них нам не надо.

[@UnnamedUnnamed-c9c]

Not all Caucasian people. They hate us.

[@KLarion2]

Thank you for the video! I'm from Almaty, one of the most diverse points in Kz: my childhood friends were 2 marian brothers, an uyghur and a korean, and I myself is half tatar

[@turkchap]

The impression I get is that the minorities in Kazakhstan live in peace unlike many other countries. Good to see this diversity in the country.

[@maxh7637]

​@@turkchap your impression is mostly right

[@Bekmukhammed-AbulkhairSuleimen]

@@turkchap kinda, sometimes we have some folks spurring up nonsense. Like, when Uyghurs who sometimes want to secede and create their ethnostate on the territory of Almaty; or pogroms of Dunghans, Chechens, and the others that also happen even today

[@maimai_cau]

I'm from south part of Kazakhstan (Shymkent city). I was born in a russian-dungan-kazakh speaking family, attended a school with primarily uzbek and german children where english and french are taught. And I belong to at least 6 nationalities with relatively equal ratio (russian - german - hebrew (probably ukrainian in addition) + kazakh - uzbek (probably a bukharian jew) - dungan (it means that I also have some chinese and arabic blood and maybe persian/mongolian/uyghur as well)😸

[@s.a.4002]

It was very diversive earlier, we really had different nationalities in classes. Nowadays, unfortunately it decreseases. That is life. People move to developed countries, even kazakhs themselves. But still a little bit sad. Anyway, I wish our country will be a place where people will live together safe and happily.

[@Aelivsnihilvs]

The more interesting fact is that this ethnic diversity exists not only in Kazakhstan, but in all other countries of Central Asia. For example, there have been registred more than 130 ethnic groups residing Uzbekistan like greeks, arabs, koreans, nogais, tatars and other.

[@turkchap]

I checked Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan but could not find detailed census data like Kazakhstan. Will try again

[@tartaria.history]

@@turkchap Bro never trust to uzbeks and kyrgyzs. They are enemies of the Kazakhs, they envy Kazakhstan in many ways, and at the beginning of the 19th (1847) century, when the last Genghisid Kenesary Khan, fought against Russians in the south, the Uzbeks and Kyrgyz began to plunder Kazakh cities, and when Kenesary Khan went to establish an alliance with them and oppose the Russian Empire, they agreed only to on paper, not in deed, they betrayed the khan behind his back and cut off his head when he read the prayer, that's how the history of the Turks of Central Asia ends.

[@trueordrue]

​@@tartaria.history man we have enough enemies as Russia and China. Lets not fight between brothers and concentrate on real enemy

[@isko_francisco7934]

I like that foreign youtubers are getting more interested in Kazakhstan, because this country hides a lot of secrets that even Kazakhs don't know. It was pleasure to watch your video, keep going! It is really normal to meet korean, uzbek or german person at the street. There is almost no place where only Kazakhs or Russians live. In my class we have Korean, Uzbek, Turkish, Russian and Kazakh people

[@airu2729]

I live in Aktobe, which is located on the western side and I used to meet a lot of Germans as a child now I think most of them went back to Germany. From time to time I wonder how they’re living. Also, I wanted to add I’ve met some Jews, Polish, Bashqurts but their Kazakhstan ID cards say Russian. And some teens just say they’re Russians and I say oh you look like my Tatar friend and they’re like well my mother is Tatar

[@Paulynyc]

Pontic Greeks that were deported to Kazakhstan by Stalin from Ukraine/Crimea and the Caucasus numbered 60,000 in 1960; after the Soviet Union fell, many left for Greece, leaving a current ethnic Greek population on 12,000.

[@turkchap]

I tried to find more info about the Greeks in Kazakhstan but haven’t been able to. Do they still speak Greek?

[@faik_nik1792]

My dad said that there were Greeks living in our village, but I don't know for sure if they spoke Greek.

[@s.a.4002]

My classmate in was greek. After graduation she migrated to Greece

[@EtherialofNowhere]

My classmate was also greek, altho almost nominally, since he did not speak the language, and chose to continue the studies in Russia.

[@proff-biter]

Most greeks simply assimilated. At least that's what happened to my family. The greek settlers simply assimilated with the local peoples, especially the tatars.

[@matthewhale2531]

Excellent video! It is also worth noting that thousands of people are of mixed ethnicity, and that can blur the lines of what percentage of the country is x-ethnicity or y-ethnicity, as well as which language they speak. Many speak Russian at home, especially if the mix is Russian+something else, or even just two groups who are quite linguistically distant, such as Ukrainian and Tatar, for example.

[@raflykato1789]

😂

[@turkchap]

Thank you mate! Yes, you are absolutely right. I am sure these numbers give somewhat a good picture of the demographics in the country but it’s always good to take them with a grain of salt.

[@albertosodre5718]

I really appreciate your effort and work, as always turkchap a great video, I hope more similar videos with other Central Asian countries. Hugs to all Turks and people of Central Asia! Greetings from Brazil 🇧🇷

[@turkchap]

Obrigado my friend, always a pleasure to see you in the comments ❤ Many more videos like this are on the way

[@nurlybekov.a]

I wnoder how turk thematic appeared attractive for brazilian) are you making reserach to similar topic?

[@albertosodre5718]

@@nurlybekov.a Yes and no hahaha, since I was little I have always liked history and geography, and recently I discovered my taste for languages and when I saw about the culture and language spoken in Turkic countries I was fascinated.

[@iVyperion]

Welcome, Beautiful Bralizians ❤

[@greatdslayarr]

There's a very interesting song called Kazakhstan from the album Yiddish Glory, which is a compliation of Yiddish-language songs from the WW2 period recently discovered after being lost for decades, and put to music by the wonderful artist Psoy Korolenko and some others. It takes the point of view of a European Jew either deported or fled to Kazakhstan, and them being welcomed into the colourful community of great diversity, composed largely of refugees and deportees like themselves.

[@turkchap]

Super interesting, I will check it out

[@itemtest1]

Always cool to see videos about my country 👍👍

[@turkchap]

🇰🇿❤

[@MARKENNEN]

Ethnic groups in my village - Agadir: kazaks, russians, ukrainians, germans, koreans, ingushs, tatars. 1977 between 1989

[@turkchap]

That’s just amazing diversity

[@kwangyatube]

Kazakhstan is such a interesting place

[@turkchap]

Yes I was blown away by all this. Seriously, considering to take a trip there sometime now

[@theskoomacat7849]

I'm always thrilled when you upload! Another quality video. Thank you, cheers from Hungary :)

[@turkchap]

Thank you very much! Cheers ❤🇭🇺

[@maimai_cau]

I'm from south part of Kazakhstan (Shymkent city). I was born in a russian-dungan-kazakh speaking family, attended a school with primarily uzbek and german children where english and french are taught. And I belong to at least 6 nationalities with relatively equal ratio (russian - german - hebrew (probably ukrainian in addition) + kazakh - uzbek (probably a bukharian jew) - dungan (it means that I also have some chinese and arabic blood and maybe persian/mongolian/uyghur as well)😸

[@romagameschanel6569]

В документах что указан??

[@IIIIIllIIlll]

You should also try to research regionalism in Kazakhstan. I am from Kokshetau and never really went outside our region and Astana. I only came across people from other regions of KZ (in big numbers) when I went to study abroad. I was so surprised by how we slightly differ in our cultural views, level of religion/national identity, and even our dialects. I even had a bit of a culture shock when I found out that people from Western Kazakhstan / Mangystau region eat beshmarbak with FISH (due to their proximity to the Caspian Sea and low quality of horse meat in that region) and call it “fishbarmaq”. 😂

[@ゾンビフィッシュ]

FISHBARMAQ😭😭😭 i didnt knew there was a thing like that..(im from kyzylorda)

[@nurzhan3269]

Thanks for the video. I appreciate the amount of work you put in. It seems pretty accurate.

[@turkchap]

Thanks for watching!

[@Kidok-h8x]

I am kazakh and in my college group we have kazakhs, russians, tatars, kurd, korean, modvin, lithuanian.

[@Kidok-h8x]

Kinda crazy that they're ancestors were probably repressed and sent here to die just because they are of wrong nationality

[@Олег-ж3с3т]

Кто такие мордвины? 😂 У них какой язык, Борат, мордвинский?

[@nariman8416]

​@@Олег-ж3с3т бот 😂

[@turkchap]

Very interesting! I assume that would all speak Kazakh and Russian, but did they also speak their own ancestral languages?

[@БейбарысЖаңабайұлы-и1ч]

​@@turkchap уйгуры и узбеки знают свои языки, но относительно других наций мы не знаем, так как на улице диаспоры говорят на русском или казахском. В Казахстане нет условий для знания родного языка для диаспор, но в то же время нет никаких искуственных припятсвий для изучение родного языка.

[@lionelmessi1254]

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[@MultilingualXU]

u did some amazing work ❤🎉

[@sodiumchloride3876]

I am from Kazakhstan and had of lot of ethnic poles and german studying with me back at school, though most of them immigrated to Germany and Poland there's a lot of fellas who never left the country and we drink a couple of beers from time to time even to this day!!!

[@satsananitugra456]

I’m ethically Greek in Kazakhstan, my ancestors were deported by Stalin to Kazakhstan.

[@turkchap]

Many were deported by Stalin I see. Sad stories indeed. Does the Greek community still speak Greek?

[@romagameschanel6569]

​@@turkchapПо сути нет, был у меня знакомый грек. По его словам он в 10 лет узнал, что он грек, всегда думал ,что он русский. Но потом уже в зрелом возрасте начал учить свой родной язык, даже жил в Греции, хотя вернулся назад

[@garden2295]

No, none of the Greeks I met in Kazakhstan knew Greek. Like many other European peoples in Kazakhstan, they speak Russian, and are already more Russian in mentality​@@turkchap

[@TYMCCK]

고려인에 대한 영상을 따로 만들어주신다니 개감동입니다 형님

[@turkchap]

They have such an interesting story and I want to talk about it in the next video ❤🇰🇷

[@アベン]

Kazakhstan mentioned 🇰🇿🦅 Thank you for this informative video! Wait you in Kazakhstan🩵🙂‍↕️

[@trueordrue]

Basically russian colonialism and soviet deportation with mix of famine created this demographics situation

[@turkchap]

Yes exactly

[@askhatassanbayev7755]

I'm from Kazakhstan and can say it's pretty accurate. But saying my country has more than 100 nationalities is kinda a myth. A lot of nationalities live locally, and everybody speaks either Kazakh or Russian

[@bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb6]

В стране менее 130 этносов

[@turkchap]

Actually, this is data from the Bureu of National Statistics. Most of the other groups have a population of less than 1000 people. This is a very similar case in 🇹🇷. We don’t officially hold statistics of ethnic groups and languages anymore. But even before the huge number of refugees, there has always been many different groups in the country. If you ask most of my fellow Turks, most of them would not know about this diversity.

[@askhatassanbayev7755]

@turkchap Kazakhstan since its independence associated itself as multinational and diverse country open to everyone. That times Kazakhs was less than half of population. And now after more than 30 years we(Kazakhs) trying to say that we are not or not anymore multinational country cause Kazakhs are now majority of population. But because of this previous claim as multiethnic country a lot of people and businesses do not pay respect to indigenous people of this land and Kazakh language. Cafes do not have menu in Kazakh, coffeeshops may say that they provide services only in Russian etc. Because of it we are trying to consider Kazakhstan as mono-ethnic country

[@БейбарысЖаңабайұлы-и1ч]

@@askhatassanbayev7755 диаспоралар сенимен оз тилинде сойлемейди, сосын сен олар орысша сойлейди деп ойлайсын.

[@atikzimmerman]

@@askhatassanbayev7755 So its Kazakhs not paying respect to Kazakhs by speaking Russian?

[@Charles_The_Texan_youtuber382]

Well it makes sense other than Qazaqs there are Russians, Dungan Chinese Muslims, Uyghurs, Volga Germans, Koryo Saram etc

[@turkchap]

Some ethnic groups make sense but I would not expect to see Koreans in Kazakhstan

[@Charles_The_Texan_youtuber382]

@ true

[@bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb6]

We have some koreans, they are very good person's there! ​@@turkchap

[@golden_horde]

​@@turkchapкорейцев очень много

[@БейбарысЖаңабайұлы-и1ч]

@@turkchap это сибирские корейцы, их депортивали по надуманной причина, но депортировали не так жестоко как тюрков. По приезду их обеспичили жильем и транспортом, в то время как для тюрков подобных условий не предоставляли.

[@markaxworthy2508]

Very interesting and very well presented. I would now like to see something specific mapped out on the decline in the Russian population of Kazakhstan since 1991.

[@БейбарысЖаңабайұлы-и1ч]

6 million 1991, 3 million 2025.

[@ruslanzhabashkanov7179]

Thanks for the research! Learned a lot about my country 😮

[@lemniscate373]

Thanks for a hard work you did. I didn't know my country was that diverse

[@turkchap]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for watching

[@PerfectBrEAThER]

10:16 *Mordvas (9,954) Only Finns and Estonians call them that. The Mordvins of the Republic of Mordovia are two ethnic groups. Language : Mordvin (Moksha and Erzya)

[@liambishop9888]

Great video! Very interesting! - from Ireland

[@RakhatAssylbek]

Kazakhstan let's go 🇰🇿🇰🇿🇰🇿🙌🏼 Author thanks 😊

[@Psevdoniim519]

Yep, im from kz, and it's cool from one side to have this ethnical diversity, and i live on north of country and almost every 5th have a German relatives in there, and having Kim, Schmidt, Ivanov, Tkachenko in same class is average expirience. But in other side most of us lost conection to their roots. Some nations have repatriation programms but they made only for our parents, i wish we have more opportunites to learn cultural backgorund of our acnestors as young generation, and gain acces to no visa option to visit country their half of your family tree live now. 🙂

[@Vienna3080]

In the 70s Kazakhstan used to be plurality Russian but increasing birth rate among the Kazakh population and Russian flight has dwindled the Russian minority down significantly

[@gentleman6820]

A really good video, liked it a lot and learnt more about my own country! But at the end with the chart of most spoken languages you mentioned English as language which 6 million people in Kazakhstan can speak. In my personal opinion, no way in my country 6 million people can speak english. I mean, I personally haven't met much people who does speak it, is there any links to resources from which the author find an information about language diversity of Kazakhstan? (specifically about 6 mil. speakers of english)

[@Mansurovs]

Hello dear, thank you for video! I have a question, in witch app you have created this video?

[@neversarium]

Sadly, some areas that were colored as "russian majority but Kazakhs are close" should be shown as Absolute Russian majority, like Fedorov or Mailin district in Qostanai region or Sandyqtau district in Aqmola region. I'm from around there, I can tell that these places population are mostly old people

[@diyartokmurzin7154]

It is not surprising that the slavic population is aging, maybe even faster than in Russia. Russians mostly send their children to universities in Russia where they stay to live. Even the university groups with education in Russian have very few Russians in cities such as Almaty

[@diyartokmurzin7154]

Sandyktau is truly a gem, I've spent there few summers with my grandparents. It is indeed mostly Russian in population, but its total population is small and doesn't change the overall picture

[@muramasa870]

they will be replaced with kazakh youth. Kazakhstan government doesn't want any of it's territories being russian majority.

[@ahunor437]

@@muramasa870 its not about our government decision rather that is european (including russians, poles, ukranians, germans and etc) population growing slower than kazakh

[@simmansu]

​​@@ahunor437 европейское население казахстана вобще не растёт. Рождаемость меньше 2.1

[@SM-xb7xw]

I subscribed after the Turkeys neighbor video. Glad I did keep making videos like this

[@mewpew1618]

Commenting helps a channel to grow. What is wrong with wanting to support a channel?​@@aqa-x6t

[@turkchap]

Thank you! Many more videos like this are on the way

[@akkarides]

Can you make a video on the Vallahades? They are Muslim Greeks who were mostly deported to Turkey in the population exchange.

[@turkchap]

Good topic! I will check them out

[@dorinpopa6962]

The Azerbaijanis weren't deported btw.

[@turkchap]

If not deported, how did they come to the country?

[@maxh7637]

​​@@turkchapjust made it here during the Soviet times and in the 90s. For example an Azerbaijani vendor I know, came to Kazakhstan from Karabakh in the 90s.

[@БейбарысЖаңабайұлы-и1ч]

@@turkchap скорее всего бежали от геноцида, устроенной армянами в 1920 годы, и 1991 году.

[@puzanfish7705]

Another great video, love your work

[@turkchap]

Thank you, cheers!

[@ChinggisKhaan1]

I love Central Asian history thank you for this video.

[@turkchap]

@@ChinggisKhaan1 Glad to hear, thanks mate!

[@Virgil_Solozzo1923]

Well done dude, great video

[@turkchap]

Thanks mate, I appreciate it

[@Ducktator]

When you posted a map showing Kazakhstan's Diversity on Reddit, I knew this was coming lol

[@turkchap]

Haha yes. At least got some feedback and fixed the map.

[@1313agbar]

Those statistics used in that video so tricky. First of all regarding Ukranians. Even though there might be many ethnical Ukrainians I still dont believe there is that many of them. In fact most of them still considered as Russians even they consider themselves as Russians. Another thing regarding the language I can 100% assure you that it’s impossible 6mill. people speaks English in Kazakhstan and also I cant imagine 300K Ukranian speakers. I am curious where this statistic coming from ?

[@turkchap]

2021 and 2023 Kazakh state data

[@1313agbar]

@ Come to Kazakhstan and try to speak English with people and you will change your mind on quality of statistics from Kazakh State 😃 P.S thank you for making video about my country, really good job 👍🏻

[@didoyerejepov3199]

I'm confused. Why it's impossible that 6 mil speaks English? In Kazakhstan, we have official 3 languages and they are taught in schools (Kazakh, Russian and English). With the help of internet, the numbers are increasing. I'm curious why do you think so. About ukrainians, if they have Ukrainian in their passport, they will be counted as Ukrainians even though when they don't consider themselves as one.

[@1313agbar]

@ thats why I said that this statistic is tricky, because its most probably was built on some survey, where people with very low level of English answered that yes they do speak and in fact they don’t. I agree that knowledge of English increasing every year since young generation learning it more but in fact if English speaker comes to Kyzylorda or Taraz he will struggle to communicate. Regarding Ukranian language if you are from Kazakhstan you know that ethnical Ukranias they don’t speak Ukranian.

[@didoyerejepov3199]

@ if English speaker comes to Kyzylorda, they will struggle to communicate even with russian translators because it is the region where Kazakh language dominates. It is obvious. Ofc, statistics doesn't show the level of English or any other language of every individual. But the fact that they know basics of language is considered. About ukrainians: I know this situation but you never know where the Ukraine propaganda (not in the bad way) reach and they start speaking again.

[@onemario64]

This was one of my favorite things about visiting Kazakhstan was seeing the diversity and being able to meet people of different backgrounds. Even if the history behind it is sad, it seems like the current population is largely happy in Kazakhstan and I noticed little to no animosity between groups there. Also one thing I think is worth noting is that the number of Russians and Kazakhs is actually likely a fair bit lower than the census. I encountered several mixed people who only marked Kazakh or Russian (Depending on what they could pass as) on their census and documents since they said they got less of a hassle from government agencies when they did that. I even met a woman who was not Kazakh at all but uzbek and tatar and still marked Kazakh on her documents because she could pass, so I would take all this data with a grain of salt

[@turkchap]

Interesting. Yes, I am sure that the numbers have error margins but overall the diversity is still incredible.

[@wellwell5483]

Ayyy, I remember downvoting you in r/mapporn😅, thought you were just reposting data. Nice to see me being wrong, amazing work!

[@turkchap]

Thanks mate! No worries :)

[@АрыстанАкын-з7к]

hello, where did u find information about people who can speak german and korean, i have never met this type of people, they are always speak russian, even old korean and german people

[@goose9515]

It said in video that some of the ethnic groups that speak these languages only speak them at a rate of 10% so I can imagine that unless you've met loads of them and talked to them extensively you wouldn't really be aware

[@turkchap]

Bureu of National Statistics of Kazakhstan is the source

[@turkchap]

@@goose9515👍

[@maxh7637]

​@@turkchaphe's right tho, I've never met any Korean or German who spoke their native language. First generation of the deportees spoke, but their kids and grandchildren are completely russified.

[@trueordrue]

I have met jews and german who spoke their respective languages

[@iskandarding5396]

Dungans are Muslims of mixed Chinese and Central and West Asian heritage, not just Chinese heritage.

[@ozodbekk]

Good job 👍🏻 Next about Uzbekistan

[@AduHati]

One question is collectivatizion another word for colonized?

[@dorinpopa6962]

No. It was the process of making peasants' separate plots of land into one communally owned and operated collective to be worked by the village commune. It wasn't a quiet affair as it was opposed by the wealthier peasants who owned a lot of land, hired people, leased land and machinery to less fortunate peasants. The majority of the peasants were poor and some moderate. When the policy was rolled out it was to be agreed by the village council, where most were of course poorer peasants. This sparked a lot of conflicts, up to terror attacks and assassinations of council members by the kulaks, the wealthy peasants. There were deportations of such people that were against these policies. Colonization is more about forming a privileged settler class who gains from the exploitation and dispossession of an autochtone population. This never really happened in the USSR as everyone had a comparatively equivalent standard of living, even the deportees and their descendants.

[@stkosta2482]

No. Collectivization means making something public.

[@simmansu]

​@@dorinpopa6962 это было так только на словах. В реальности коллективизация по сути являлась отъёмом земель в пользу государства, и обращением свободных крестьян-фермеров в рабов колхозников. Итогом колективизации стал огромный голод 30х годов и очень неэфективное советское сельское хозяйство. От колективизации погибло огромное количество людей, казахи особенно пострадали поскольку являлись скотоводами-кочевниками.

[@БейбарысЖаңабайұлы-и1ч]

collectivization is taking away all the cattle from the Kazakhs, and even the food on the table, as a result of which 6 million(70%) Kazakhs died of hunger, long before it became mainstream. By the way, they also burned all the old books in Kazakh, long before the Austrian artist.

[@ganievtj1721]

​По всему СССР в то время был голод. К сожалению. Какие еще книги сжигали?Сказки пожалуйста не рассказывай тут. Лишь бы национализмом блеснуть.​@@БейбарысЖаңабайұлы-и1ч

[@zainmudassir2964]

Hope also do demographic breakdown of Pakistan as well

[@googlezhan]

we need ethnic schools very much

[@Timur-s7i]

Имеешь ввиду школы с образованиям на языках меньшинств?

[@PaloclegenyIYI]

Great work! I would also like to learn about the tribal makeup of the Kazakhs. There is also the Madjar people whom are considered to be the remnants of Old hungarians who remained in the ancient homeland. Ofcourse they speak Kazakh nowdays. I personally hate almost everything what Stalin did.

[@timkaz8793]

O, magyar brother here! I am Kazakh, hello from Kazakhstan 🇰🇿👋

[@PaloclegenyIYI]

@timkaz8793 Hallo my brother from Kazakhstan! 👋 I am Palouts btw. A hungarian subgroup. It's an assimilated ethnicity. Palouts people are decendants of Pannonian Avars.

[@neslihanfazloglu1497]

Kazakistan ve Türkiye iki dost devlettir. 🇹🇷💝🇰🇿

[@bagzhansadvakassov1093]

Kazakhs are not super monolite either. They differ in mentality and slightly in language as well.

[@somelove9872]

“Oh wow, how did this ethnic end up here” “So, Stalin-“ “Nevermind”

[@Арман-о7т]

The sad thing that is some polish and ukranian people are recognized as the russian ethnic group in kazakhstani passport

[@Stav_Hadj]

This might be because they all left but many Pontic Greeks who lived in the Caucasus Greeks who were deported to Kazakhstan . There is a Greek song about this ανάθεμα σε Καζακστάν (damn you Kazakhstan)

[@turkchap]

So the Greeks of Kazakhstan are the descendants of the Pontic Greeks?

[@turkchap]

Also overall it is super interesting to see Greeks spread out to Central Asia and the Caucasus. I know that (correct me if I am wrong) there are still some Greeks in Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia.

[@leopoldzoupounidis571]

​@@turkchap Yes, Stalin sent Pontiacs into exile to Kazakhstan

[@gnas1897]

​@@turkchap Yes. The Greeks deported to Kazakhstan are mostly Pontians from the Kuban coast, Abkhazia and Adjaria.

[@isaac1674]

@@turkchapthe Greeks in Kazakhstan now are Pontic Greeks and Caucasian Greeks

[@Suleimenoff]

It puzzles me why every single non-Central-Asian cannot say Kazakhstan, where did you guys find Kazakh(i)stan on the map???

[@lisandrochocobar6930]

Can you do the same with some African countries like Uganda or Namibia?

[@muramasa870]

Korean minority are the most wealth out of the every minority in this country. They always live as a big family, like 3 families with 3 family generations making family business and just doing some awesome business, but they always go to korean universities and stay there... many such cases... almost all germans left kazakhstan :c

[@golden_horde]

Знаю много корейцев которые съездили в южную Корею и вернулись и сказали что там слишком много работают и нет никакой личной жизни.

[@turkchap]

I read a similar thing about the Koreans. As I saw, most young Koreans don’t speak Korean (correct me if I am wrong). In this case, if they go to South Korea, do they have any issues integrating? I am just looking for a Korean-Kazakh person in the comments 😀

[@trueordrue]

​@@turkchapno problem with integrating. I have a university korean friend. She loves to eat kazy, kurt and other kazakh traditional food but also consumes kimchi, spicy carrot dish and soiju

[@SolaqaiBala]

​@turkchap I study at uni in Almaty, and have three koryo-saram friends there. None of them speak Korean, only russian, and they have russian-christian names with korean surnames. Like, Alexander Shin or Anna Yun.

[@f-man3274]

Yeah, Northern Kazakhstan is a place where German can casually meet a Korean and they both will be native Russian speakers. Truly a melting pot of post-Soviet space

[@turkchap]

Yes, I was mindblown by the diversity

[@winterbalm]

i wonder how they read Dungan in Cyrillic when it does not have tone marks

[@ermuhambetcalmenov8104]

Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 tek Qana ALGA

[@slkozmaishere6312]

If I had to guess the koreans were deported from the modern region of the jewish oblast right?

[@turkchap]

They were deported in masses from Primorsky Krai in 1937

[@wimblewomble4751]

Could you do the Assyrian languages in a future video?

[@turkchap]

Semitic languages are in my list. I have many many more videos like that coming

[@URVme22]

As a bashkir living in Russia 300 km away from Kazakhstan I wonder why there are no bashkirs in this video. Kazakhs are our brothers

[@pulaPA02]

Честно сказать 20 миллионов это мало, учитывая, что узбеков почти 40

[@Noname_0702]

Ну население хотябы растет а не на месте стоит

[@simmansu]

До голода казахов было больше.

[@pulaPA02]

@simmansu до голода много кого больше было, а по факту после распада СССР население никакой страны в постсоветском пространстве не выросло кроме Узбекистана

[@9719rsaka]

@@pulaPA02 у всех республик Средней Азии с 1991 прибавилось население

[@maxh7637]

​​@@pulaPA02у Казахстана прибавилось, да и во всей Средней Азии. Больше всего в Узбекистане, конечно.

[@AidanSim]

An amazing video. I hope to see the same content for other countries

[@JohnJourdan88]

You omitted a few important factoids: the lingua franca of all these near abroad countries is still Russian. The European population fairly do not speak any of the native languages (Kazakh, Uzbek, Tajik etc). The reason the European population has collapsed since the end of the USSR is because most have repatriated back to their ethnic homelands, especially the Germans in a process that continues to this day called Aussiedlers und Spätaussiedlers (resettlers and late resettlers). Another large portion has and is migrating to Russia, while the rest has been Russified and intermarried with other Russified European nations (Poles, Germans, Ukrainians and Russians). The Koreans, Chechens and Tatars are all Russified too, but largely stuck to their own populations.

[@iqmi_3]

In the village were my mom lived there were germans, russians, ukranians, belorussians, kazakhs and tatars. My mom’s class was mostly russian, her besties were german and Azerbaijan girls. It was in the Soviet Union, what about now? One of my friend is azerbaijan-jew, other is georgian, other is slavic.

[@turkchap]

Very interesting. Although the story of the arrival of these ethnic groups in Kazakhstan is pretty sad, it’s a bit more refreshing to see that they can live in peace in the country.

[@zephyrencealdus4956]

New turkchap video 🍷

[@turkchap]

@@zephyrencealdus4956 cheers!

[@AbramOrozco-j6t]

@@turkchapGod forbid, haram

[@balak1]

video in short: deported by Stalin

[@turkchap]

Mostly yeah

[@googlezhan]

did minority ethnics grew in last 30 yaers of independance?

[@ubushaevagulsagi8374]

Most of them left Kazakhstan. Especially Russians but after mobilization in 2022 some of them came back but I personally don’t like that bcs of them prices for everything skyrocketed.

[@kevinschreiner4179]

Both my parents are Volga Germans that returned to Germany in 1991

[@turkchap]

Pretty cool! Did they speak German?

[@marlentoktomamatov5868]

that mf Stalin had no chill with his people

[@realLucasSilva]

1:13/1:12 No Kazakhs this time

[@revinhatol]

Or Russians.

[@cat_man_pls]

0:06 there is unofficial theory, that in 1990-s, when counting of people were doing, Nazarbayev, the 1st president of Kazakhstan, decided to cut down six million people of Kazakh nationality from counting of population to not to neighbors from north of Kazakhstan nervous, and there is much more people in Kazakhstan, about 35-40 million. THIS IS UNOFFICIAL INFORMATION, MAYBE IT IS TRUE OR MAYBE IT ISN’T

[@azamatr2788]

Please make a similar video about Uzbekistan. They all look so different from each other, you can find Mongol-looking, Persian-looking, Turk-looking, European-looking and Indian-looking Uzbeks all over the country. Would be interesting to find out the reasons, thank you in advance!

[@dahenqadirmhamad]

Would you cover Kurds of Turkey in your next videos?

[@turkchap]

Not really planning to make content on that topic

[@dahenqadirmhamad]

@turkchap why not

[@markus_park]

That is indeed insane! Sadly though this diversity is on decline

[@markus_park]

i'm pretty confident there was a much larger greek presence back in the day

[@iqmi_3]

There were.

[@onemario64]

Although there is definitely a decrease in diversity, it likely isn't as sharp as the statistics make it seem since many mixed people only put Kazakh or Russian, even if they know their heritage since it gives them less of a hassle with the government. I've even met people there who were 0% Kazakh and still marked Kazakh on their documents because they pass

[@trueordrue]

Yeah Kazakhstan are becoming monoethnic

[@AlneCraft]

@@trueordrue MFW the titular ethnicity went from 30% of population to 70% of population. It's really not that sharp of an increase, and Urban areas are still plenty diverse.

[@Cetnikmapping]

Have a good day

[@turkchap]

You too mate!

[@Kozkayn]

To summarize: Because Stalin.

[@romagameschanel6569]

Не знал ,что 6млн казах владеют английским языком😂😂😂

[@thomasnewman246]

Теперь знаешь. С 2000 года 3хязычие в школах.

[@romagameschanel6569]

@thomasnewman246 ты точно в Казахстане живешь😂

[@romagameschanel6569]

@Nseven1 Я тоже учился в классе с английским уклоном, жил в США, но это не значит,что я владею английским. 90% слов я не понимаю, как и все мои друзья рядом. Только один друг владеет английским языком)) но не 6млн казах, это много

[@siberian_ice]

Аскар привет

[@winterbalm]

i bet russian population increaseda bit in 2022 also Turkic speaking Siberian people arrived in hundreds or thousands of

[@ablay5255]

راقٮمەت!

[@scarletsence]

In short, Stalin deportation shenanigans.