NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Tenge

Tenge is the monetary unit of Kazakhstan. It is divided in 100 tiyin and was introduced in November 1993 to replace the Russian ruble. ISO-4217-Code: KZT. 1998 Russian Federation one rouble coin. ...

The name of the currency is related with the Russian word for money денгы, which was borrowed from Turkic. The word tenge in Kazakh and most other Turkic languages means balance, scales. The origin of the word is Chinese Tengse which means balance. The Turkic languages borrowed this word through Mongolian Tenkh(e). A Kazakh and his camel The Kazakhs (Qazaq, Quazaq), (in Kazakh: Қазақ; in Russian: Казах; English term is the transliteration from Russian) are a Turkic people of the northern parts of Central Asia famous in the past for the fierce love of freedom, skillful horse riding, hunting with semi-domesticated... The Turkic languages are a group of closely related languages that are spoken by a variety of people distributed across a vast area from Eastern Europe to Siberia and Western China. ...

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