Uluslararası Türk Lehçe Araştırmaları Dergisi (Dec 2019)

THREE CONGRESSES, ONE DECISION: KAZAKH LATIN ALPHABET

  • Ergali ESBOSINOV

DOI
https://doi.org/10.30563/turklad.649453
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 2
pp. 233 – 240

Abstract

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After the First Turkology Congress held in Baku in 1926, the subject of Latin alphabet in the Turkic World was reconsidered in the “International Symposium of Modern Turkish Alphabets” at the Institute of Turkic Studies of Marmara University in 1991 and 2018. As is known, in 1926 after meeting of Turkey, Baku, Azerbaijan in 1991 after the Istanbul meeting have made the transition to the Latin alphabet. President of Turkey Turgut Ozal, and President of Republic of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev's first meeting in 1990, and consequently will also be discussed. The current President of Kazakhstan Tokayev, preparing for the transition to the Latin alphabet, called for is we expect the language experts to develop the new Kazakh Latin alphabet, and upon this, the leading linguists and Turkologists of the country came together and held a roundtable. Presidential authority to be presented on the basis of the result of this meeting, 32 letters thrown at scientific meetings in Turkey has reached a new Kazakh alphabet agenda. In phonetic terms, this sound is based on one letter and the rear signs that will meet all the sounds of Kazakh.

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