Qazaqsa
Qazaqsa is the name given to the language of Kazakhstan written in Latin alphabet.
History[edit]
The language of Kazakshtan in central Asia has been written in Cyrillic since Russia started to occupy that country in the 19th century.I deed modern Kazakh, going back approximately one thousand years, was written in the Arabic script until 1929, when Soviet authorities introduced a Latin-based alphabet: it was a latin script and it was called Qazaqsa.
After World War I, Turkish countries began a linguistic change to use only the Latin alphabet, promoted mainly by Kemal Ataturk of Turkey. Consequently, from 1927 to 1939, Kazakhstan, then a part of the Soviet Union, used the Latin alphabet. But Joseph Stalin reinstated in 1940 the Cyrillic in order to impose a Russification of Soviet central Asia.
In 1991 the newly independent Kazakshtan started to allow the return to the old Latin alphabet, but with the use of the Cyrillic as the primary alphabet.
In 2006 the actual president Nazarbajev of Kazakhstan has implemented a project to substitute in 15 years the Cyrillic with the Latin alphabet of the "Qazaqsa", in order to officially use the "Qazaqsa" as the only language of his country after 2025.[1]
A revised version of the 2017 Latin alphabet was announced in February 2018. Presidential Decree 637 of 19 February 2018 amends the 2017 decree and the use of apostrophes was discontinued and replaced with diacritics and digraphs.[1][2] Notably, the new alphabet uses the acute accent where other alphabets prefer using umlauts.
Qazaqsa alphabet[edit]
The Qazaqsa Latin alphabet has 38 letters:
| A a | Ä ä | B b | C c | Ç ç | D d | E e | F f | G g | Ğ ğ |
| H h | X x | I ı | İ i | J j | K k | Q q | L l | M m | N n |
| Ñ ñ | O o | Ö ö | P p | R r | S s | Ş ş | T t | U u | Ü ü |
| V v | W w | Y y | Z z | É é | Ï ï | Yu yu | Ya ya |
Notes[edit]
- ↑ "Kazakhstan adopts new version of Latin-based Kazakh alphabet". The Astana Times. 26 February 2018.
- ↑ Decree No. 637 of February 19, 2018
See also[edit]
External links[edit]
- Website with government information about Kazakhstan (in Qazaqsa)
- Website of the government of Kazakhstan (in Qazaqsa).
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