Kazakhstan is changing its alphabet from Cyrillic to Latin-based

Re:Kazakhstan is changing its alphabet from Cyrillic to Lati... by rimliu on Thursday April 26, 2018 @04:35AM (#16930067)

I can add about the "marginalisation" — if you live in the country for decades and still refuse to learn/speak the local language—you have marginalised yourself. Alas, the examples are plenty. These cases are an example of chauvinism ("велик и могуч русский яазык“, others are subpar) not racism.

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Re:Kazakhstan is changing its alphabet from Cyrillic to Lati... by disordinary on Thursday April 26, 2018 @04:44AM (#16930117)

Well, the example that I know best are the Baltic countries and most of the Russian minority in those countries do speak Estonian or Latvian or Lithuanian fluently.

It's not a case of people in the Crimea speaking Ukrainian but whether they have the freedom for their own culture. We're not talking people who have lived in a country merely for decades either, we're often talking people that have lived in a country for generations, certainly back in the tsarists period of the Russian Empire.

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