Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Kazakstan has changed from Cyrillic to Latin alphabet - who else uses which alphabet?

Flag of Kazakhstan in blue and yellow with a radiant central sun.


Central position and large size of Kazakhstan.

Kazakhstan is a country in central Asia, the largest of the stans, richest, Muslim and what about the alphabet? You might want to travel to visit a country just the same as home, nearby, or far away and completely different. If it's too far, too expensive, or too different, you might still be interested in reading about it on the internet. Yes, what about the alphabet?

Problem
I am struggling to learn the Cyrillic alphabet used in Russia. Which countries use which alphabet?

Some countries have signs in another second language.

Latin Alphabet
Kazakstan (or spell it Kazakhstan)
Romania
Turkmenistan
Plus English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese in Portugal, Madeira and Brazil, Spanish in Spain and S America, UK including Scotland and Wales and USA.

Cyrillic Alphabet
Bosnia
Russia
Ukraine

Other alphabets
Aric speaking countries:
Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia
Greece
India
Israel

If you have gone to the trouble of learning Cyrillic you can still use it:
Wiki says.
Among others, Cyrillic is the standard script for writing the following languages:
The Cyrillic script has also been used for languages of Alaska,[19] Slavic Europe(except for Western Slavic and some Southern Slavic), the CaucasusSiberia, and the Russian Far East.
Useful Websites

Story about the Kazakstan change to Latin with apostrophes reverting back to Latin with accents.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-43126818
http://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/how-to-learn-to-read-and-write-cyrillic.html

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. Learner and teacher of English and other languages. I have several posts on Cyrillic. Please share links to your favourite posts.

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