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3 unusual facts about Kyrgyz language


Alykul Osmonov

His main accomplishments were transforming poetry from an oral to a literary tradition, focusing upon secular themes with an emphasis on inner emotion, daily life, and nationalism, and translating numerous European authors into the Kyrgyz language, including William Shakespeare, Sándor Petőfi, and Alexander Pushkin.

Myrzakan Subanov

Myrzakan Usurkanovich Subanov (Kyrgyz and Russian: Мырзакан Усурканович Субанов; born 15 October 1944) is a Soviet and Kyrgyzstani military leader who served as post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan's chairman of the State Defense Committee in 1992-1993 and first Minister of Defense in 1993-1999.

Omurbek Babanov

Omurbek Toktogulovich Babanov (Kyrgyz: Өмүрбек Токтогулович Бабанов; born 15 January 1970) is a Kyrgyz politician who was Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan from 1 December 2011 to 1 September 2012.


Jeti-Ögüz resort

Jeti-Ögüz (Kyrgyz: Жети-өгүз, seven bulls) is a balneotherapic resort located at the north slope of Teskey Ala-Too mountain range near Issyk Kul in the Jeti-Oguz District of Issyk Kul Province of Kyrgyzstan, about 28 km west of Karakol.


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György Almásy

He published a very important article on the teller of the Kyrgyz epic of "Manas" about a farewell meeting between the Kyrgyz hero and king Manas with his two-month-old child, Semetei (the magazine Keleti Szemlé, 1911-12.) It included a Latin transcript of the Kyrgyz-language text of the episode.