Kazakhstan replaces Cyrillic with Latin

The Kazakh language belongs to the Turkic language group and uses a modified version of the Cyrillic alphabet with 42 characters. Kazakhstan already used the Latin alphabet during the Soviet period, but completely replaced it with the Cyrillic alphabet in 1940
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Nursultan Nazarbayev, Photo: Reuters
Nursultan Nazarbayev, Photo: Reuters
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Ažurirano: 13.04.2017. 07:22h

The President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, determined the main lines of the reform of replacing the Cyrillic alphabet with the Latin alphabet by 2025, which, in his opinion, should contribute to the modernization of that Central Asian country.

The President of Kazakhstan asked his government to start preparations for setting a deadline for the reform of the letter.

The Kazakh language belongs to the Turkic language group and uses a modified version of the Cyrillic alphabet with 42 characters. Kazakhstan already used the Latin alphabet during the Soviet period, but completely replaced it with the Cyrillic alphabet in 1940.

"By the end of 2017, a new standard for the Kazakh alphabet should be launched," the president wrote.

Russian is one of the country's official languages, and President Nazarbayev regularly uses it in his speeches, reports N1.

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