These lessons are written by us, but they lean on published reference works. The works behind each course — grammars, dictionaries and reference sites — are listed below.
Kazakh
Kazakh Grammar with Affix List — A. Krippes. Main reference for the affix system and case endings; a number of examples are adapted from it.
Kazakh Language Course for Peace Corps Volunteers in Kazakhstan — B. Alpysbaeva, B. Ismagulova & U. Turguzhanova. Consulted for everyday phrasing and for how a beginner course sequences its material.
Kazakh — D. Kara. Consulted as a general reference grammar, particularly for the sound system.
Kazakh Language — A. Akhmetova. Consulted for everyday vocabulary; a number of examples are adapted from it.
A Grammar of Kazakh — Z. Dotton & J. Doyle Wagner. Consulted as a modern linguistic description, particularly for the sound system and the case endings. Its examples are printed in Latin rather than Cyrillic.
Sözdikqor — sozdikqor.kz. A portal that serves the published Kazakh dictionaries and subject encyclopedias side by side, the fifteen-volume dictionary of the Kazakh literary language among them. Consulted for the vocabulary the grammars do not print, and for what each of those words means.
Karşılaştırmalı Türk Lehçeleri Sözlüğü — Türk Dil Kurumu. Used to check the Turkish comparison on each example against an independent Turkish–Kazakh source, since the grammars themselves give no Turkish equivalents.
Wiktionary — Wiktionary contributors. Consulted for word origins, which none of the grammars gives — whether a word is inherited Turkic or borrowed from Persian or Arabic, and which borrowed month and weekday names Kazakh and Turkish took from the same place.
Kazakh alphabets (Wikipedia) — Wikipedia contributors. Consulted for the official 2021 Latin alphabet and the history of the script reforms, which postdate the printed books.