Shala Kazakh

In the 18th-19th centuries, the Shala Kazakhs (Kazakh: Шалақазақтар, romanized: Şalaqazaqtar) were an ethnographic group of descendants of tatars, sarts, uyghurs, etc., migrated to Kazakhstan, intermarried with Kazakh women, but remained outside the Kazakh genealogy [kk], because it propagates only via the male line. The literal translation for "shala" is "incomplete", "unripe".

The term is also applied to people of whom only one parent is Kazakh.^[1]

The term "Shala Kazakh" also has a pejorative meaning in Kazakhstan. It means part of the Kazakh society who don't know their native Kazakh language well or don't know it at all.^[2]

See also

• Mankurt