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Three alphabets are used to write Kazakh: the Cyrillic, Latin and Arabic scripts. The Cyrillic script is used in Kazakhstan and Mongolia. An October 2017 Presidential Decree in Kazakhstan ordered that the transition from Cyrillic to a Latin script be completed by 2031. [1] .
Nowadays, Kazakh is mostly written in the Cyrillic script, with an Arabic-based alphabet being used by minorities in China. Since October 26, 2017, via Presidential Decree 569, Kazakhstan will adopt the Latin script by 2025.
Notes. Kazakh has vowel harmoney: ә, e, i, ө & ү are front vowels, and а, ы, о & ұ are back vowels, while Semi (Neutral) - й, и & у are neutral vowels. In native words, ғ & қ are used before or after back vowels, and г & к are used before or after front vowels, e.g. ағаш қазан.
Kazakh language, member of the Turkic language family within the Altaic language group, belonging to the northwestern, or Kipchak, branch. The Kazakh language is spoken primarily in Kazakhstan and in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China but is also found in Uzbekistan, Mongolia, and Afghanistan.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The Kazakh alphabets are the alphabets used to write the Kazakh language. The Kazakh language uses the following alphabets: The Cyrillic script is officially used in the Republic of Kazakhstan and Bayan-Ölgiy Province in Mongolia.
The Kazakh Alphabet. As you can see from the chart below, the Kazakh alphabet has both uppercase and lowercase letters. It is also a proper alphabet, i.e. every sound used in Kazakh is displayed alphabetically, just like English, Spanish, Russian, and Italian, as opposed to a language where there is some ambiguity in a word's vowels, like in ...
The Kazakh alphabet is based on the Cyrillic script, which is the alphabet used for Russian and many other languages. In addition, Kazakh has speciаl letters such as і, ұ and ғ for sounds that do not exist in Russian. The Kazakh alphabet has 42 letters: A a Ә ә Б б В в Г г Ғ ғ Д д. Е е ¨ Ж ж З з И и Й й К к. Қ қ Л л М м Н н Ң ң О о Ө ө.
