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Why wouldn't Kazakhstan use pure 26-letter Latin alphabet? There is a big advantage in using the same keyboard that English language uses.

grzm 8y ago
Just as fair, is why would they? There are plenty of languages besides English which use the Latin alphabet, and plenty of keyboard variants out there. Crikey, even within English, there are those who prefer non-QWERTY layouts. Find a mapping that makes sense for the language, which, from an admittedly non-native eye, it appears they've done.
qwerty456127 8y ago
Using pure 26-letter Latin alphabet means using multi-letter combinations to represent particular sounds and/or using same letters to represent very different sounds in different contexts. Both things feel very ugly. I am not really familiar with non-european alphabets but Č (Czech, Croatian, Latvian) looks much better and easier to read than CH (English), CZ (Polish), TCH (French) or TSCH (German, I'm not even sure I've spelled it correctly, it may happen to be even longer and more weird in German). And you can fit more in a twit this way :-) When I was a student speed-writing huge amounts of text on lectures I went even further, e.g. using Ŋ in place of NG in Eŋliš :-)
- ajuc 8y ago
  With utf-8 digraphs can be actually shorter in terms of bits than diacritics :)
- dennisgorelik 8y ago
  > Both things feel very ugly. Both things ("multi-letter combinations" and "same letters to represent very different sound") are inevitable anyway -- with or without diacritic characters. After learning the language - I do not notice any of these two problems. But I struggle with switching between keyboard layouts multiple times every day: I frequently forget to switch between English and Russian and start typing in a wrong layout. If Russian used 26 letter latin alphabet - there would be no "layout switch" problem.

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Why wouldn't Kazakhstan use pure 26-letter Latin alphabet? There is a big advantage in using the same keyboard that English language uses.

by dennisgorelik 8y ago

grzm 8y ago
Just as fair, is why would they? There are plenty of languages besides English which use the Latin alphabet, and plenty of keyboard variants out there. Crikey, even within English, there are those who prefer non-QWERTY layouts. Find a mapping that makes sense for the language, which, from an admittedly non-native eye, it appears they've done.
qwerty456127 8y ago
Using pure 26-letter Latin alphabet means using multi-letter combinations to represent particular sounds and/or using same letters to represent very different sounds in different contexts. Both things feel very ugly. I am not really familiar with non-european alphabets but Č (Czech, Croatian, Latvian) looks much better and easier to read than CH (English), CZ (Polish), TCH (French) or TSCH (German, I'm not even sure I've spelled it correctly, it may happen to be even longer and more weird in German). And you can fit more in a twit this way :-) When I was a student speed-writing huge amounts of text on lectures I went even further, e.g. using Ŋ in place of NG in Eŋliš :-)
- ajuc 8y ago
  With utf-8 digraphs can be actually shorter in terms of bits than diacritics :)
- dennisgorelik 8y ago
  > Both things feel very ugly. Both things ("multi-letter combinations" and "same letters to represent very different sound") are inevitable anyway -- with or without diacritic characters. After learning the language - I do not notice any of these two problems. But I struggle with switching between keyboard layouts multiple times every day: I frequently forget to switch between English and Russian and start typing in a wrong layout. If Russian used 26 letter latin alphabet - there would be no "layout switch" problem.