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Kyrghiz writing


Subject Linguistics

DOI: 10.1111/b.9780631214816.1999.x


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Table 24 The Kyrghiz alphabet Spoken primarily in the Republic of Kyrgyzstan as well as in China, Uzbekistan and Afghanistan, Kyrghiz (also Kirghiz, Kirgiz) is a Turkic language which first achieved the status of a written language in the 1920s when it was recognized as one of the official languages of the USSR. Initially Arabic letters were used ( table 24 ), but in 1926 the Roman alphabet was adopted which in turn was replaced by Cyrillic in 1940. In China, Kyrghiz continues to be written in the Arabic script ( figure 14 ). A reformed spelling system was adopted there in 1983. Figure 14 Sample sentence of Kyrghiz in Arabic script ... log in or subscribe to read full text

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