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Turkey went through a similar process. Reasons included a desire to increase literacy rate and a creating a new national identity. This doesn't really apply to
by partycoder 8y ago
Turkey went through a similar process. Reasons included a desire to increase literacy rate and a creating a new national identity.
This doesn't really apply to Kazakhstan, a country that already has a good literacy rate.
- lmm 8y agoForming a national identity is still pretty important for Kazakhstan, which lives in the shadow of Russia. That Nazarbayev apparently deferred to the popular will on this issue is promising if the nation is to outlast him.
- TomK32 8y agoWell, Turkish didn't have it's own native script, merely adopted and adapted the arabic script which wasn't a good match https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Turkish_alphabet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Turkish_alphabet