In 1912, prominent Kazakh linguist and reformer Akhmet Baitursynuly adapted the Arabic script to better reflect Kazakh ...

This week, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev met with officials responsible for shepherding the Kazakh language from its present Cyrillic script into a Latin alphabet. As reported by RFE/RL, ...

ALMATY – Growing up in Esil, a predominantly Russian-speaking town in northern Kazakhstan, Aleksei Skalozubov didn’t feel the need to speak Kazakh, the country’s state language. The situation didn’t ...

Kazakhstan’s government is introducing fresh rules to ban discrimination on linguistic grounds in the workplace just as a rowdy public conversation unfolds around the status of the Kazakh language.

As Russian forces pursue a physical war in Ukraine, a shadow war is being fought too: a war against the legacies of Russian imperialism. Before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Biybarıs Seitak said, ...

Kazakhstan embraced independence 30 years ago, yet is still actively nation-building around language, shared history, and cultural diversity with the over 100 ethnic groups living in the vast Central ...

Russians who have relocated to Kazakhstan say the country has raised its language requirement for residency permits, with ...

Almaty, Kazakhstan, 16 May 2023 – VEON Ltd. (VEON), a global digital operator that provides converged connectivity and online services, today announced that its Beeline Kazakhstan operating company ...

ASTANA. Nov 10 (Interfax-Kazakhstan) – 5th-8th, 10th grade students will start taking a Kazakh language exam from the 2023-2024 academic year; previously only 9th and 11th grade students used to take ...