[lg policy] Fwd: FW: Kyrgyzstan ministers begin learning Kyrgyz language

[Harold Schiffman]

Forwarded From: Fierman, William <wfierman at indiana.edu>
Date: Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 11:39 AM
 FW: Kyrgyzstan ministers begin learning Kyrgyz language



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http://www.worldbulletin.net/?aType=haberYazdir&ArticleID=104857&tip=****

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Asia-Pasific - 17:26, 16 March 2013 Saturday ****

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Kyrgyzstan ministers begin learning Kyrgyz language****


After enacting the requirement that personnel in the government of
Kyrgyzstan must know the Kyrgyz language, government employees are being
directed to language courses. ****

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*Murat Hayati/World Bulletin
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After the Kyrgyzstan Council of Ministers enacted a requirement that the
personnel at government offices know the Kyrgyz language, employees who do
not fulfill the requirement have begun language development courses.


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Many high-level officials do not currently know Kyrgyz. The cultural
policies of the Soviet era weakened Kyrgyz language and culture. The UN
considered Kyrghyz among the languages which will be lost over the coming
period.President of Government Administration Nurhanbek Momunaliyev
explained in a statement that personnel in the administrative structure
will be classified according to the level of their Kyrgyz language
knowledge.

The statement aslo indicate that in order to develop the grammar and
writing skills of the personnel, they will take courses with technology in
a computer environment. Momunaliyev explained that, unlike the suggestions
of the Russian media, the new regulations are not an initiative by the
Kyrgyz government to eliminate the Russian language from the environment.


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According to the Constitution of Kyrgyzstan, the Kyrgyz language is the
state language, while Russian has the status of official language. Many
members of parliament argue that the Kyrgyz language should be used in all
correspondence and documents. In multi-ethnic Kyrgyzstan, the parliament
has deputies belonging to different ethnicities. Due to Russian serving as
the official language, all speeches made in plenary sessions are
simultaneously translated into Russian, while Russian speeches are
translated to Kyrgyz. ****

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 Harold F. Schiffman

Professor Emeritus of
 Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

Phone:  (215) 898-7475
Fax:  (215) 573-2138

Email:  haroldfs at gmail.com
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/

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