Kazakhn.

1832 J. Bell Syst. Geogr. IV. 396 Amongst the names of tribes noticed..are: the Kuthai Kipchaucks, Kuzzauks,..and Kara Kalpaks.

1886 R. N. Cust Lang. as illustr. by Bible-translation 32 The Túrki Branch [of Ural-Altaic], containing Chuvásh, Kazáni, Nogái..and Kirghíz in the Kazák Dialect.

1907 G. W. Hunter in M. Broomhall Chinese Empire 296 There are large numbers of Kirghiz—Khasack tribes—here in the district of Urumchi. They are mostly wandering nomadic tribes, though some have farms and settled abodes.

1918 G. W. Hunter Examples Turki Dial. Pref. Whilst doing some Qazaq Turki translation work we found it necessary to read some native Qazaq books. And we thought it might be useful to keep a record of our studies in Qazaq, and in the various other Turkish dialects... Much still requires to be done in Qazaq, Tartar and the Kirghese dialects.

1945 Dairy Sci. Abstr. VII. 3 Crossbred cows..gave an average milk yield..39·2 per cent. more than Kazakh cows... Crossbreeding Kazakh and Schwyz cattle.

1948 D. Diringer Alphabet 568 Eastern or Altai-Kirghiz Turkish or Kazakh Turkish, spoken by several hundred thousand nomads in the Altai and T'ien Shan mountains.

1949 N. Jasny Socialized Agric. U.S.S.R. iii. xiv. 330 On the price paid by the Kazakhi for collectivization see the end of the preceding chapter.

1949 N. Jasny Socialized Agric. U.S.S.R. iii. xiii. 323 The Kazakhi, a Mongol pastoral tribe inhabiting mainly Kazakhstan... The Kazakhi should have numbered 4·6 million in 1939.

1957 Chambers's World Gazetteer (rev. ed.) 359/2 Kazakh SSR, or Kazakhstan... Kazakhs..constitute 60% of the total pop... The written Kazakh language has existed only since the revolution.

1968 N. Bethell & D. Burg tr. A. Solzhenitsyn Cancer Ward i. iv. 49 Next to him Egenberdiev, a middle-aged Kazakh shepherd, was not lying but sitting on his bed, legs crossed as though he was sitting on a rug at home.

1969 Guardian 21 June 9/5 The Russians have broadcast propaganda in the Kazakh language from Alma Ata.

1972 Times 11 Dec. 1/7 An 800-mile border with China. It crosses mountainous areas which provide pasture land used by Kazakh and other hill shepherds.