The Republic of Kazakhstan is a multiethnic and multi-religious state. Turkic speaking community is one of the largest in Kazakhstan. Twenty-five ethnicities present a unique model of the Turkic world in Kazakhstan. The most numerous Turkic diaspora is Turkish, represented by Akhiska, Hemshilli, Laz Turks, and Terekeme. Language variants of sub-ethnic groups are endangered or have already come to the point where there is a need for their revitalization. Documentation of linguistic peculiarities of different dialects of Turkish Diaspora in Kazakhstan is one of the important tasks. Another important research task is the study of the history, culture, and language of the ethnic Kazakhs who remained outside the modern border of the government and were repatriated after the independence of Kazakhstan. The language and culture of the Kazakh repatriates is still preserved in the way it existed before the establishment of the Soviet era in Kazakhstan. All the peculiarities of the language, traditional culture, important historical events, which are kept in the memory of the people, are disappearing because of the generation shift. A new generation of ethnic Kazakhs in China loses their native language, assimilating into cultures of the country they live. The historical heritage, language, and culture retained by the older generation of repatriates need to be recorded and documented by researchers.
Kazakhstan, Turkic world, Turkic languages, language documentation, ethnicity, repatriates, Kazakhs in China