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<h1>Language policy programme brings positive results, considers Kazakh terminology update</h1>
<p class="gmail-byline">By Zhanna Shayakhmetova <em>in</em> <a href="https://astanatimes.com/category/nation/" rel="category tag">Nation</a> <em>on</em> 30 November 2018</p>
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<p>ASTANA – The state programme on language development and
functioning is in full swing throughout the country. More than 42,000
people have attended language courses at the training centres and
52,245, including 20,057 civil servants, passed the KazTest examination
of their proficiency of the Kazakh language in a seven-month period,
said Vice Minister of Culture and Sports Aktoty Raimkulova at the Nov.
26 government meeting.</p>
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<p>The programme was augmented with tasks to clarify the phased switch
of the Kazakh language to the Latin script to improve spelling and
ensure accessibility.</p>
<p>One state and 88 regional national language centres operate
throughout the country. Approximately 600 civil service employees from
central executive bodies participated in language courses this year and
the government supported 26 ethnic groups in studying the native
language to preserve the nation’s linguistic capital.</p>
<p>“The share of total document circulation in the state language was 93
percent, including 91 percent in central executive bodies, 95 percent
in local executive bodies and 46 percent in national companies in nine
months of this year,” said Raimkulova.</p>
<div id="gmail-attachment_33456" style="width:1034px" class="gmail-wp-caption gmail-alignnone"><a href="https://astanatimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Vice-Minister-of-Culture-and-Sports-Aktoty-Raimkulova-.jpg"><img class="gmail-size-large gmail-wp-image-33456" src="https://astanatimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Vice-Minister-of-Culture-and-Sports-Aktoty-Raimkulova--1024x576.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="576"></a><p class="gmail-wp-caption-text">Vice Minister of Culture and Sports Aktoty Raimkulova. Photo credit: <a href="http://primeminister.kz">primeminister.kz</a>.</p></div>
<p>Kazakh language documentation for all sectors is available at
Qujat.kz. The onomastic website Atau.kz, orthographic portal Emle.kz,
Tilmedia.kz trilingual website and Balatili.kz children’s website have
been launched.</p>
<p>The ministry is also monitoring the use of terms. The national
terminology commission approved 21,000 terms, including 40.8 percent
rooted in Kazakh and 59.2 percent borrowed and mixed.</p>
<p>In addition, the ministry is monitoring terminology principles and
solving the main tasks of applied terminology to preserve the purity of
the Kazakh language and translate it into scientific language. Kazakh
equivalents for a number of foreign language terms were revised.</p>
<p>More than 45,000 school graduates passed the native language
assessment and literature test and mastered their level to B1, said
Minister of Education and Science Yerlan Sagadiyev. The indicator
increased to 90 percent this year.</p>
<p>Work is underway to introduce the standard practice of continuous
state language education in the kindergarten – school – college system.</p>
<p>Prime Minister Bakytzhan Sagintayev proposed creating a new language
development and functioning programme for 2020-2024. The programme
would ensure the harmonious co-existence of the state language as the
major factor in strengthening Kazakhstan’s identity and unity and the
languages of all ethnic groups living in the country.</p>
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<br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies <br>University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone: (215) 898-7475<br>Fax: (215) 573-2138 <br><br>Email: <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com" target="_blank">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/" target="_blank">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a> <br><br>-------------------------------------------------</div></div>