Kyrgyzstan's President, Sadir Japarov, has expressed his views on converting the Kyrgyz language from Cyrillic to the Latin alphabet, AKIpress reports.
He criticized Kanibek Osmonaliyev, head of the National Commission for the State Language, for addressing language policy without adequate consideration. Japarov highlighted that the Kyrgyz language should be developed in the Cyrillic script and that converting to the Latin alphabet is not a contemporary concern.
On April 19, Deputy Emil Toktoshev addressed Osmonaliyev about the necessity for the move to the Latin alphabet during a meeting on the proposed constitutional legislation "On the State Language" in the second reading. He stated that academics and scientists are prepared to initiate the changeover if the Kyrgyz parliament and the President adopt a political choice.
Now, one of Kyrgyzstan's official languages is Russian, and the nation uses the Cyrillic character. The Kyrgyz language employed the Arabic script throughout the first part of the nineteenth century until switching to the Latinized alphabet in 1927. However, the nation formally switched to the Cyrillic script in 1940.
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