Kazakhbrick's new alphabet

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In April 2017 the president of Kazakhstan-icon.png Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, announced that the country will switch its alphabet from Cyrillic to Latin. The process is scheduled to be finalised in 2025.

So by 2025, Kazakhstan will become Qazaqstan. The name "Kazakhstan" is the latinised name of the Russian form "Казахстан", instead of the native form "Қазақстан".

Example

Let's take the well-known Universal Declaration of Human Rights as an example.

Here's the original text:

Барлық адамдар тумасынан азат және қадір-қасиеті мен құқықтары тең болып дүниеге келеді. Адамдарға ақыл-парасат, ар-ождан берілген, сондықтан олар бір-бірімен туыстық, бауырмалдық қарым-қатынас жасаулары тиіс.

This is what the transliterated text look like:

Barlıq adamdar tuwmasınan azat jäne qadir-qasïeti men quqıqtarı teñ bolıp dünïege keledi. Adamdarğa aqıl-parasat, ar-ojdan berilgen, sondıqtan olar bir-birimen tuwıstıq, bawırmaldıq qarım-qatınas jasawları tïis.

As you can see, the transliterated text takes much less space.

Let's make some adjustments to make it easier to write by hand...

Barlıq adamdar tuwmasınan azat jəne qadir-qasiyeti men quqıqtarı teň bolıp düniyege keledi. Adamdarğa aqıl-parasat, ar-ojdan berilgen, sondıqtan olar bir-birimen tuwıstıq, bawırmaldıq qarım-qatınas jasawları tiyis.

So, Kazakh (or perhaps Turkish) users on this wiki, what do you think about this transition?

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