"Kazakh soil" hysteria. Astana. The Kazakh driver responded to claims that he speaks Kazakh: You are getting too much hype about it. And it's often a matter of word of mouth. Most likely you are from the south, and we are from the north. We have two official languages. alas such. One Kazakh calmly explains to others that the language issue is becoming a tool for hype, and North and South Kazakhstan can look at it completely differently.