Kasakhstan plans switch from Cyrillic to Latin alphabet
01 July 2019 |
12:29 pm
Authorities in Kazakhstan say a plan to switch from the Cyrillic to the Latin alphabet by 2025 is part of the country's "spiritual modernization." But what about the teachers who will shoulder the burden of teaching bilingual children a new alphabet?
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