Wurm Stefan. (Kara-) Kirghiz language

London: University of London, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Vol. 13, No. 1, (1949): 97-120.The (Kara-) Kirghiz language is spoken on the territory of the Autonomous Republic of the Kirghiz by about 650,000–700,000 individuals. My Kirghiz informant was Odajarov Abdilla (20 years old), of a village near Frunze (Purunza, 42° 50" north latitude; 75° east latitude), the capital of Kirghizistan. He and his parents had always lived in that village, where they had worked as agricultural labourers. He had been to school for four years and spoke a little Russian apart from Kirghiz. For the literary language I had a grammar at my disposal (Qьrgьz Tilinin elementardьq gramatikesi = Elementary Grammar of the Kirghiz language, by Şaвdan uulu Açьman and I. A. Batmanov), from which I had taken most of the examples.