[Paladin2]

That’s a tiugh row to hoe.

At least they don’t have to switch directions too.

[Slyfox]

[Gene Eric]

Hell yeah, ANSI rules!!!

[who_would_fardels_bear]

One of the most annoying consequences of political correctness in literature is the use of Cyrillic whenever Russian words are included in a text. So no more nyet or dos vedanya. Instead we see an indecipherable sequence of characters known only to those who studied Russian.

There are so many cool Russian words that people are missing out on because their latinized versions are no longer included.

Absolutely stupid and useless and tending toward separating people rather than bringing them together.

[Does so]

The Foreign Ministry said in September that the switch to Latin script would also benefit Kazakhstan’s development.

Gee, I suggested this here about two weeks ago, but to bring Russia closer to the West.

[j. earl carter]

Kazakhstan has the coolest sport ever: Kokpar.

Here’s an example from the 2017 world championships: Usa vs. Mongolia. I didn’t even know the USA had a Kokpar team. It’s safe to watch as nobody takes a knee for the anthem.

https://youtu.be/4Ill3YJtOhw

[AdmSmith]

Kazakh belongs to the Kipchak branch of the Turkic languages and earlier they used the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Turkic_alphabet

The new script is a modified form of the Latin alphabet, which is used to write not only English but many other languages, including Turkic ones related to Kazakh, such as Turkish.

But the version of Cyrillic the Soviets adopted was unnecessarily cumbersome, with 42 letters, including several representing sounds that do not occur in Kazakh, such as shch and ts. The new script will have a mere 32 letters: 23 ordinary Latin ones (c, w and x did not make the cut), and nine with apostrophes.

https://www.economist.com/news/asia/21730917-its-going-take-lot-diacritical-marks-kazakhstan-wants-kazakh-written-latin-not