Third change in less than 100 years partly aims to distance country from Russia and make it simpler to use on digital devicesKazakhstan is to change its official alphabet for the third time in less than 100 years in what is seen in share as a symbolic creep to underline its independence. President Nursultan Nazarbayev ordered his office on Thursday to prepare for a switch to a Latin-based alphabet from a Cyrillic one,distancing itself, at least graphically, and from Russia. Related: ‘The decline of Russian dominance is striking’: readers respond from the Stans Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com