Languages of Kazakhstan  130 ethnic groups live in Kazakhstan. Including 65% of Kazakhs, 21.8% of Russians, 3.0% of Uzbeks, 1.8% of Ukrainians, 1.4% of Uyghurs and 1.2% of Tatars. The official languages of Kazakhstan are Kazakh with 5,290,000 speakers around the country and Russian which is spoken by 6,230,000 people. Both Kazakh and Russian are used on equal grounds. German (30,400 speakers), Tajiki, Tatar (328,000 speakers), Turkish, Ukrainian (898,000 speakers), Uyghur (300,000 speakers), and Uzbek are officially recognized by the 1997 Language Law, No. 151-1. Other languages natively spoken in Kazakhstan are Dungan, Ili Turki, Ingush, Plautdietsch, and Sinte Romani. A number of more recent immigrant languages, such as Belarusian, Korean, Azerbaijani, and Greek are also spoken. In Nazarbayev's resignation speech of 2019, he projects that people of Kazakhstan in the future can speak three languages (Kazakh, Russian and English). Per 2007 data: