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Cyrillic is nice since it has extra letters that were added for central asian sounds. Spelling is more clear than when you use latin letters. With latin letters
by red-indian 9y ago
Cyrillic is nice since it has extra letters that were added for central asian sounds. Spelling is more clear than when you use latin letters. With latin letters some single letters get replaced with double letters, or multiple sounds are overloaded onto a single letter.
It's a pity they don't switch to Orkhon script instead of Latin given their roots. There's a movement already to learn Orkhon as it's the traditional writing of the area and already developed with the sounds of the Turkic languages. (As an example, here's a Kazakh music video with subtitles in both Orkhon script and Türk alfabesi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNUE05sRwrA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNUE05sRwrA). As long as they are going to the trouble of switching orthographies they should make it more meaningful than simply replacing Russian influenced letters with western european ones.
- flurie 9y agoTurkish written with Latin script nearly has ideal phonemic orthography (the outlier is ğ, which is unvoiced or, sometimes, I believe, like a glottal stop).
- playing_colours 9y agoWith latin letters some single letters get replaced with double letters, or multiple sounds are overloaded onto a single letter. Or you can add diacritical marks to letters: Č/č for "ch", Š/š for "sh", etc.