Kazakhstan introduced the "classic alphabet that is used throughout the world"
A Kazakhstan philologist Yerbol Tleshov told the media that the number of letters in the Latinized Kazakh alphabet will be almost halved. If now the 42 letters, then after the translation into Latin will remain 25.
Philologist quotes the portal "Nur.kz":
The statement itself about some kind of “classic alphabet used throughout the world” is puzzling. Or "the whole world", in the understanding of Mr. Tleshov, does not include such countries as Russia, China, India, Japan, Vietnam, Korea, Thailand, Belarus, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Serbia, etc.?
Introducing the draft of the Kazakh alphabet, the philologist stated that several letters will now be designated by the so-called digraphs - a combination of two Latin letters: Ә - ae, Ө - oe, Ү - ue, Ң - ng, Ғ - gh, Ч - ch, Ш - sh , W - zh.
Tleshov:
It turns out that the inhabitants of Kazakhstan, among whom the majority are Russian-speaking, lived for decades with “shortcomings” in the alphabet, until the “bright minds” decided to correct the shortcomings ...
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