Kazakhstan is contemplating a switch to the Latin alphabet. With the President Nursultan Nazarbayev himself raising it, observers think it may well become reality. Addressing the Assembly of Peoples ...

ASTANA -- Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev has decreed changes in the Latin-based alphabet that is to replace Cyrillic in the Central Asian country, abolishing apostrophes that came under severe ...

Kazakh President Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev has ordered a new variation of the Kazakh-language alphabet based on Latin letters that would replace the current alphabet based on Cyrillic by 2025. According to ...

Kazakhstan has barely had time to start getting used to its new alphabet before the president decided to put out a new one. In this version, the much-mocked apostrophes have been dropped in favor of ...

ALMATY, Kazakhstan — In his 26 years as Kazakhstan’s first and only president, Nursultan A. Nazarbayev has managed to keep a resurgent Russia at bay and navigate the treacherous geopolitical waters ...

EADaily, June 29th, 2026. There are countries in the world that switch to the Latin alphabet because it is so convenient for ...

Kazakhstan’s planned transition to a Latin alphabet is intertwined with issues of national identity, geopolitical shifts, and post-colonial discourse. Kazakh has been written in a Cyrillic script ...

Think about what you could do with around $664 million. Now think about what you could do with that money over a seven year period. This is exactly what the country Kazakhstan is going to have to ...

Dmitrii comments at neweurasia on Kazakhstan's decision to change the Kazakh language's alphabet from Cyrillic to Latin, saying that it was the right choice to make. (RUS) Global Voices stands out as ...