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They will lose part of their history and cultural heritage. The younger generations won't be able to read the older works, so they will be forgotten. ~100 year
by vetinari 4y ago
They will lose part of their history and cultural heritage. The younger generations won't be able to read the older works, so they will be forgotten.
~100 years ago, Turkey switched from Arabic to Latin; you can study the impact.
- zozbot234 4y agoOTOH by transcribing those older works to the more widespread Latin script, you'd also make them a bit more available internationally.
- eimrine 4y agoThere are 15 competing standards...
- mda 4y agoBenefit of the switch is much higher. Important old works can be translated. Even though latin Turkish alphabet is a bit problematic for software (I -> ı capitalization issues) I think Uzbec and Kazakh alphabets avoided this issue.