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Literacy rate skyrocketed after switching to Latin from Ottoman Turkish alphabet
by basitmakine 8y ago
Literacy rate skyrocketed after switching to Latin from Ottoman Turkish alphabet
- gnulinux 8y agoI don't think it's the same situation. Arabic alphabet is a particularly bad alphabet to write Turkic languages in (although it's ok, as wel all know since people used it for almost a millenia) but Cyrilic alphabet is already pretty close to Latin. Also, literacy in Turkey skyrocketed in 1930s not only because of alphabet change. It might have been a minor factor, but there were other factors and the government highly emphasized Western education, to the point it was totalitarian in most regions.