'Kazakhstan's new alphabet good for Turkic literature'

[Attila the Hun]

Under President Nursultan Nazarbayev's decree, country is set to switch from Cyrillic to Roman-based script by 2025

By Aliia Raimbekova

ASTANA, Kazakhstan (AA) - A move by Kazakhstan to change its alphabet to the Roman script would contribute to Turkic literature, an academic said Thursday.

The country is set to switch from Cyrillic to a Roman-based script by 2025.

Darkhan Kydyrali, president of the International Turkic Academy, said they were working on a literary canon book aimed at promoting the classics of Turkic literature.

The book, which will be written in Kazakh in the Latin alphabet, will mainly cover folklore, tales and epics from all Turkic cultures and is due to come out this year, he said.

"As an academy, we would like to popularize literary works and develop a familiarity with literary heritage by translating collective works into other branches of Turkic languages,"

Kydyrali is also overseeing a project for a common alphabet of 34 letters for Turkic languages in order to build bridges between literature. He said writing works in a common alphabet would bring people closer together.

Kazakh, with its three dialects – Western Kazakh, Northeastern Kazakh and Southern Kazakh -- is a Turkic language. It is very close to Uzbek, Kyrgyz and Turkmen -- the languages of Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan -- and is spoken by many ethnic Kazakhs throughout the former Soviet Union

Under Nazarbayev's decree, the country is set to switch from the Kazakh alphabet, which is Cyrillic, to a Roman-based script by 2025.

Nazarbayev said on April 12 last year that by 2025, Kazakhstan will start publishing workflows, periodicals, textbooks and everything else in the Roman alphabet.

He said Kazakhstan previously used a Roman alphabet from 1929 to 1940 but later replaced it with the Russian-based Cyrillic one.

In a speech last October, Nazarbayev said the transition to a new alphabet will make learning the Kazakh language easier.

He added that the transition would not affect the rights of the Russian-speaking people or Russian and other languages.

https://aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/kazakhstans-new-alphabet-good-for-turkic-literature/1077672
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Turkiye winners again. Central Asia will always side with Turkiye over non-Turkic people. Just the way it is.

 

[Arabi]

Sorry to tell you it has nothing to do with Turkey, if it is, then they should switch to Lisan Osmani not Roman-based script.

 

[Attila the Hun]

Sorry to tell you it has nothing to do with Turkey, if it is, then they should switch to Lisan Osmani not Roman-based script.

 

[TMA]

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What was the script of Turkish before Roman? What was the script before that?

 

[TMA]

Stop crying Arabs and Pakistanis. what does this got to do with you?

Nothing. I just thought that a lot of Turkic literature would be in a script other than Roman, and if the idea was to promote Turkic literature it may be prudent to instruct your people in that script. Or maybe I am mistaken, maybe the bulk of Turkic literature is in the Roman script...

 

[lastofthepatriots]

Stop crying Arabs and Pakistanis. what does this got to do with you?

What was the script before Arabic? Genuine question.

 

[lastofthepatriots]

doesn't seem like it. Seems like a lot of you are upset about it.

Turkish is easy to read thanks to Roman script. At least for English speaker like me.

 

[HRK]

Stop crying Arabs and Pakistanis.

doesn't seem like it. Seems like a lot of you are upset about it.

SHUT UP and behave properly .... not with falsely boasted ego ....
@cabatli_53 @The Eagle ...plz note

 

[Mucahit]

Nothing. I just thought that a lot of Turkic literature would be in a script other than Roman, and if the idea was to promote Turkic literature it may be prudent to instruct your people in that script. Or maybe I am mistaken, maybe the bulk of Turkic literature is in the Roman script...

Until the 1920's the Turkic people in Central Asia used Latin alphabet and that continued even after the Russian invasion but when Turkey became a republic and Atatürk introduced the new Turkish alphabet with Latin writing, Russians decided to force Turkic people into using Cyrillic alphabet because they apparently thought Turkey would have some influence and closer ties because of a shared alphabet.

 

[Kompromat]

We should also adopt Roman script for Urdu, as heartbreaking it would be to lose the Nastalique script, it will be more efficient.

 

[TMA]

Until the 1920's the Turkic people in Central Asia used Latin alphabet and that continued even after the Russian invasion but when Turkey became a republic and Atatürk introduced the new Turkish alphabet with Latin writing, Russians decided to force Turkic people into using Cyrillic alphabet because they apparently thought Turkey would have some influence and closer ties because of a shared alphabet.

I see. For how long did the Central Asian Turkic nations use Roman script? and before that?

We should also adopt Roman script for Urdu, as heartbreaking it would be to lose the Nastalique script, it will be more efficient.

Nah.
It will sever the bonds further... even if it is more efficient. Look at Japan and Russia and China. They keep their scripts...

 

[lastofthepatriots]

We should also adopt Roman script for Urdu, as heartbreaking it would be to lose the Nastalique script, it will be more efficient.

Disagree. Don't want slum dogs reading.

 

[Mucahit]

I see. For how long did the Central Asian Turkic nations use Roman script? and before that?


Nah.
It will sever the bonds further... even if it is more efficient. Look at Japan and Russia and China. They keep their scripts...

l couldn't find any info on how long they used Latin alphabet before the Cyrillic one but they might have used Arabic? Turkic people were nomads so we used all kinds of alphabets...Some even attempted to use Chinese one as far as l heard.

Countries like Japan, Russia, China and even the Israelis kept their original alphabets because they had a fixed place to stay and build their civilization which was not the case for us.

But switching from Arabic to Latin was probably the best thing considering the two languages don't really fit with each other except the shared words because of Islam but even those are heavily Turkified nowadays.

 

[Attila the Hun]

SHUT UP and behave properly .... not with falsely boasted ego ....
@cabatli_53 @The Eagle ...plz note

I get a negative vote for that???

 

[TMA]

l couldn't find any info on how long they used Latin alphabet before the Cyrillic one but they might have used Arabic? Turkic people were nomads so we used all kinds of alphabets...Some even attempted to use Chinese one as far as l heard.

Countries like Japan, Russia, China and even the Israelis kept their original alphabets because they had a fixed place to stay and build their civilization which was not the case for us.

But switching from Arabic to Latin was probably the best thing considering the two languages don't really fit with each other except the shared words because of Islam but even those are heavily Turkified nowadays.

But surely you peoples had an original script or was written language introduced to you guys by others?