All Turkic-speaking countries begin transition to Latin alphabet

[Annihilus]

All Turkic-speaking countries began the transition to a unified Latin alphabet, Azerbaijani Parliamentary Culture Committee Chairman Nizami Jafarov told Trend.

The statement made by the President of Kazakhstan on the country's transition to the Latin alphabet will contribute to this process, he said.

"Kazakhstan has long been carrying out preparatory work for the transition to the Latin alphabet. Earlier a delegation arrived in Azerbaijan on behalf of the President of Kazakhstan, they were interested in our experience. Kazakhstan has some difficulties in carrying out this work, because there are many Russian-speaking people," he said.

Kazakhstan's transition to the Latin alphabet will play a crucial role in the use of the Latin alphabet in Central Asia, Jafarov said.

"Kyrgyz and Kazakh are similar. In addition, Kyrgyz, Tatars and Bashkirs are under the cultural influence of Kazakhstan, and this will speed up the transition to the Latin alphabet in the region," he stressed.

Uzbekistan was the quickest to move to Latin alphabet among the countries of Central Asia, and there's almost half of newspapers published using the Latin alphabet, the chairman of the committee said.

Kazakhstan intends to move from Cyrillic alphabet to Latin one by 2025, President Nursultan Nazarbayev said at a meeting dedicated to the 21st anniversary of independence on Friday.

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Nice development, this will make cultural and economical cooperation much easier. Maybe even an union one day?

[Hayalet]

All Turkic-speaking countries begin transition to Latin alphabet

Good call if they truly wish to be independent.

[TheMagnificent]

Next step is dropping the Russian/Slavic name suffixes?

[MfA_]

Next step is dropping the Russian/Slavic name suffixes?

I dont know what keeps them it havent happened already? it surely be easier than changing whole alphabet..

[Partizan]

We should also develop a common language. For interested Turkish users, there is a facebook page for that.

[Anatolian Eagle]

To be honest I actually don't care about the alphabet but about the language sense not only Russian but all foreign influence such as Arabic, Persian aswell as French shoud disappear as there still are many of them. It's saddening how people use these words more frenquently than their Turkic equilavents. Switching to Old Turkic alphabet would also be nice but that's too fantastic and far from reality so it would be fine to stick out with Latin since it's possibly most fitting alphabet for Turkic languages.

Here's a list of replaced loanwords in Turkish. I try to use words of Turkish origin as much as I can.

[TheMagnificent]

To be honest I actually don't care about the alphabet but about the language sense not only Russian but all foreign influence such as Arabic, Persian aswell as French shoud disappear as there still are many of them. It's saddening how people use these words more frenquently than their Turkic equilavents. Switching to Old Turkic alphabet would also be nice but that's too fantastic and far from reality so it would be fine to stick out with Latin since it's possibly most fitting alphabet for Turkic languages.

Here's a list of replaced loanwords in Turkish. I try to use words of Turkish origin as much as I can.

I'm not sure if further tinkering with the language is a good thing, because otherwise we will end up in a situation in which our youth will not be able to read its own literature from the past, like most people can't read Ottoman-Turkish script nowadays (something I regret). Language is a breathing, dynamic thing, not something to be imposed from above, in my opinion. But I would agree on preventing further degeneration of the language, of course.

[Cannabis Sativa]

If they don't get rid of their Russkie imitated dictators, change in their alphabets will not make any sense for them. Cyrillic Alphabet and -ov suffixes at the end of their family names comes to prove their so-called leaders' loyalty to mother Russia. The cunts like Kerimov and Nazarbayev should be like Assad. Those cunt Kerimov and Nazarbayev living in glass houses and somebody should break those glass houses. Anyway, after dealing with Syria we may count Kerimov as blacklisted.

[Anatolian Eagle]

I'm not sure if further tinkering with the language is a good thing, because otherwise we will end up in a situation in which our youth will not be able to read its own literature from the past, like most people can't read Ottoman-Turkish script nowadays (something I regret). Language is a breathing, dynamic thing, not something to be imposed from above, in my opinion. But I would agree on preventing further degeneration of the language, of course.

It would be all screwed up if you do all these change at once. People slowly accepting "new" words, would do the trick. Ottoman Turkish script was simply Arabic script with so many Arabic and Persian influence in language, and in my opinion was also far from Turkish itself. We're getting to what really belongs to us closer and closer this way.

[TheMagnificent]

It would be all screwed up if you do all these change at once. People slowly accepting "new" words, would do the trick. Ottoman Turkish script was simply Arabic script with so many Arabic and Persian influence in language, and in my opinion was also far from Turkish itself. We're getting to what really belongs to us closer and closer this way.

That sounds more plausible. And let there be no misunderstanding; I think the Latin alphabet fits the Turkish language better.