Description
The tenge is the currency of Kazakhstan. It is divided into 100 tiyn. The ISO-4217 code is KZT.
a set of scales . The origin of the word is the Mongolic word teng (ᠲᠡᠩ) which means “being equal, balance”. The name of this currency is thus similar to the pound, lira, peso, taka, and shekel. The name of the currency is related to the Russian word for money Russian: деньги/ den’gi, which the Old Russian language borrowed from Turkic sources
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