{"id":65982,"date":"2018-09-02T11:25:30","date_gmt":"2018-09-02T09:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/177651197211"},"modified":"2018-09-02T11:26:44","modified_gmt":"2018-09-02T09:26:44","slug":"the-kazakh-switch-from-cyrillic-to-latin-north-european","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=65982","title":{"rendered":"The Kazakh Switch, From Cyrillic to Latin. BBT"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Kazakh Switch, From Cyrillic to Latin.
\nNorth European Bhaktivedanta Book Trust: The change in scripts has been in discussion since 2006. The deci\u00adsion was announced in October 2017, with the goal for a complete transition to the new writ\u00ading system by 2025. Most of the country\u2019s reasons are probably obvious \u2013 nationalism, a move to distance the Kazakh people from their past as a Russian colony, and shifting political and economic allegiances. But there\u2019s also an idea that Cyrillic has never suited the Kazakh tongue because Kazakh has a number of sounds that don\u2019t have natural Cyrillic equivalents. Also, its subsequent forty \u00adtwo \u00adletter Cyrillic alphabet doesn\u2019t translate well to computer keyboards. By contrast, the new Latin \u00adbased alphabet has only thirty \u00adtwo characters and uses a script that appears on almost every keyboard worldwide. The writing system needs to be modernized, the Kazakh presi\u00addent has announced. It\u2019s expensive to change a country\u2019s writing system, and it takes at least a generation for the change to be effective. One news report said that Kazakh\u00adstan would have to \u201cre\u00adenroll the entire population in kindergarten.\u201d Other countries have tried similar language adjustments. Germany, with its orthographic reform in 1998, and Uzbekistan, with its switch from Cyrillic to Latin in 1993, are two examples. The BBT has several books in Kazakh, including Bhagavad-\u00adgita As It Is, which, if the switch in alphabets takes place \u2013 or the law demands \u2013 we will convert and republish. The devotees in Kazakhstan ultimately hope to make all of Srila Prabhupada\u2019s books available in their language in whichever script prevails. Sorry, Cyril!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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The Kazakh Switch, From Cyrillic to Latin.
\nNorth European Bhaktivedanta Book Trust: The change in scripts has been in discussion since 2006. The deci­sion was announced in October 2017, with the goal for a complete transition to the new writ­ing system by 2025. Most of the country’s reasons are probably obvious – nationalism, a move to distance the Kazakh people from their past as a Russian colony, and shifting political and economic allegiances. But there’s also an idea that Cyrillic has never suited the Kazakh tongue because Kazakh has a number of sounds that don’t have natural Cyrillic equivalents. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[152],"class_list":["post-65982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-media","tag-nectar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65982"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65984,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65982\/revisions\/65984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}