Online seminar on the improved draft of the Kazakh alphabet
On February 25, 2021, at the Karaganda Industrial University, the Department of Kazakh, Russian and Foreign Languages organized an online meeting with the language development center of the city of Temirtau, the resource language center of the Department for the Development of Languages of the Karaganda Region.
The event was dedicated to acquaintance with the new alphabet based on Latin graphics, a member of the spelling working group, Ph.D., associate professor of Karaganda University named after I. E.A. Buketova Tursynova Markhaba Akhmetkalievna. The online seminar was actively attended by teachers of the Karaganda Industrial University and the Technical and Economic College at KarIU. At the meeting, the listeners got acquainted with the new improved project of the Kazakh alphabet based on Latin graphics.
Markhaba Akhmetkalievna Tursynova spoke in detail about the changes made, about the measures taken to improve the alphabet in order to make the Kazakh language more practical and functional. In the digital world, innovations and new technologies, it is important that the Kazakh alphabet is understandable anywhere in the world. Side apostrophes were dropped in the new alphabet. This opens up opportunities for effective use of the language in search engines and program codes. There are digraphs (double letters) and superscript, diacritical marks in the alphabet, which are a worldwide practice. A keyboard project with a new alphabet is proposed.
According to listeners, the latest changes made make the Kazakh alphabet more convenient and modern.