Kazakhstan wants Kazakh written in Latin, not Cyrillic script
But it’s going to take a lot of diacritical marks
RARELY has the humble apostrophe caused such commotion. Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kazakhstan’s president, wants the punctuation symbol to play a much bigger part in public life. Ordinary Kazakhs are objecting. Some feel so strongly that they have launched an anti-apostrophe campaign on social media, adorning their Facebook pages with crossed-out apostrophes.
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “Apostrophes on the march”
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