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Re:Kazakhstan is changing its alphabet from Cyrillic to Lati... by titanix2 on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @08:08PM (#16927647)
No, but the local languages where repressed and even forbidden for a long time by the republic ("It’s forbidden to spit and spoke X language" policy at schools) in ordrer to increase or create the national unity.

I’m very sad that from the two languages known by my grand parents generation (alsatian and a dialect of dutch) I only know a few words because these languages were destroyed by the state.

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Re:Kazakhstan is changing its alphabet from Cyrillic to Lati... by qaq on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @08:25PM (#16927744)
No doubt all empires deploy similar tactics, but in respect to the topic at hand I doubt Canada believes there is a credible threat of France using french as an excuse to annex parts of Canada. While Kazakhstan have seen Russia execute this strategy multiple times in very recent years.
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Re:Kazakhstan is changing its alphabet from Cyrillic to Lati... by simlevesque on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @08:46PM (#16927886)
They don't fear annexation but they fear independance.
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