<div dir="ltr">Latin alphabet?  Ask Kemal Attaturk.<div>Bernard</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 6:00 PM,  <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lgpolicy-list-request@groups.sas.upenn.edu" target="_blank">lgpolicy-list-request@groups.sas.upenn.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Send lgpolicy-list mailing list submissions to<br>
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   1. Kazakhstan to Qazaqstan: Why would a country switch its<br>
      alphabet? (Dave Sayers)<br>
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Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 11:29:45 +0000<br>
From: Dave Sayers <<a href="mailto:dave.sayers@cantab.net">dave.sayers@cantab.net</a>><br>
Subject: [lg policy] Kazakhstan to Qazaqstan: Why would a country<br>
        switch its      alphabet?<br>
To: "<a href="mailto:lgpolicy-list@groups.sas.upenn.edu">lgpolicy-list@groups.sas.<wbr>upenn.edu</a>"<br>
        <<a href="mailto:lgpolicy-list@groups.sas.upenn.edu">lgpolicy-list@groups.sas.<wbr>upenn.edu</a>>,   BAAL Language Policy SIG<br>
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"Last Friday Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev finally decreed that the language<br>
would shed its heavy Cyrillic coat and don what he hopes to be a more fashionable<br>
attire: the Latin alphabet."<br>
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More in the BBC article here:<br>
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-41800186" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/<wbr>world-asia-41800186</a><br>
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Dave<br>
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Dr. Dave Sayers, ORCID no. 0000-0003-1124-7132<br>
Senior Lecturer, Dept Humanities, Sheffield Hallam University | <a href="http://www.shu.ac.uk" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">www.shu.ac.uk</a><br>
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Communications Secretary, BAAL Language Policy group | <a href="http://www.langpol.ac.uk" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">www.langpol.ac.uk</a><br>
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