Kazakhstan is changing its alphabet from Cyrillic to Latin-based
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#2All other alphabets are made by little girls.
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#3Don't have an opinion on the news itself, but find it amusing that the title picture features journals exclusively in Russian.
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#4This is like a way of asking to be the next Crimea, hahaha
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#5Don't have an opinion on the news itself, but find it amusing that the title picture features journals exclusively in Russian.
Is that right? It's not just Cyrillic, but actually Russian language? If so, that's pretty funny.
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#6The costs are not purely economic -- you will have people struggle to read in the new script and make old texts inaccessible to young people. Additionally, this isn't a case like Chinese where Romanization has the benefit of making it easier to acquire literacy. What is the benefit of this change? I find the claim in this article that using the same script to write their language is going to bring them closer to Western Europe and the US pretty implausible.
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#8Doing a short gig for the national revenue office there now. Their previous contractor ran away with $40k, and left them with a JPEG picture instead of a tax return portal.
The first version of a new script (one with apostrophes) was beyond unreadable.
Re: Kazakhstan is changing its alphabet from Cyrillic to Latin-based
#9The costs are not purely economic -- you will have people struggle to read in the new script and make old texts inaccessible to young people. Additionally, this isn't a case like Chinese where Romanization has the benefit of making it easier to acquire literacy. What is the benefit of this change? I find the claim in this article that using the same script to write their language is going to bring them closer to West…
ASCII with the English charset is easier than charset juggling and Unicode?
Less subconscious negative feeling from Latin-alphabet-users? It's a linguistic version of website moving to "flat" UI design.
Re: Kazakhstan is changing its alphabet from Cyrillic to Latin-based
#10The costs are not purely economic -- you will have people struggle to read in the new script and make old texts inaccessible to young people. Additionally, this isn't a case like Chinese where Romanization has the benefit of making it easier to acquire literacy. What is the benefit of this change? I find the claim in this article that using the same script to write their language is going to bring them closer to West…
The benefit is to more easily draw international tourists and conduct business around the world. Most rich countries use the Latin alphabet, so it's a bid to move away from the Russosphere.