At the Karaganda State Industrial University on November 2, a seminar was held on the phased transfer of the Kazakh alphabet from the Cyrillic alphabet to the Latin script. Teachers of Temirtau schools and colleges took part in this event.

The new Kazakh alphabet, based on the Latin script, was approved by the decree of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan on October 26 this year. The transition to it will occur in stages until 2025. This issue is the most discussed in society today.

Candidate of Philology, Professor Sembiev Kurmangazy Zykyruly, who among the invited experts took part in the seminar, told that in his history the Kazakh language has undergone many changes. In the 7-9 centuries, Kazakhs used runic letters. With the advent of the territory of Islam, the Kazakh language began to be recorded in Arabic script. In the modified adapted form the Arabic ligature was used up to 1929. The next 10 years, the Kazakh people tried to translate their language into Latin, but already in 1940, the country began to use the Cyrillic alphabet. According to Kurmangazy Zykyruly, the translation of the Kazakh alphabet from Cyrillic to Latin script is an important and justified step on the eve of the 26th anniversary of Independence of Kazakhstan.

Teachers of schools and colleges of the city, who took part in the seminar, will act as the main conductors of new ideas. It is the teachers who give knowledge to the younger generation that will be able to communicate this important information to the public as effectively as possible.

Press-service of KGIU