> The cultural subtext of easing consumption and learning of other latin-script media and art from the wider world. That’s not really the motivation here. Engl

> The cultural subtext of easing consumption and learning of other latin-script media and art from the wider world. That’s not really the motivation here. English learning has boomed in Kazakhstan for many years now even without a script reform, the younger generations have no problem with the Latin alphabet. Kazakh-language texts on social media are often liberally sprinkled with English phrases in the Latin alphabet regardless of Kazakh itself still being written in Cyrillic.