Joseph Fatula scripsit:
> This I certainly didn't hear anything about. Romanization seems to be the
> nationalist position as far as writing systems are concerned. Most
> nationalist effort in Kazakstan seems to be Kazak or Pan-Turkic, rather than
> Pan-Islamic, so the former Arabic-based system isn't even an option being
> suggested.
It's too painful to write Turkic with it's ~ 8 vowels in Arabic script
with its three. Like the waltzing bear, the amazing thing is that it
was ever done at all.
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