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that is funny but essential to understand the situation of the country(my motherland). It is hard to be between Dangerous "dragon" and Aggressive "bear" you know. Nonetheless, we are a happy nation and we will not give our independence neither to china nor Russia.
oh my god, I am a kazakh citizen and I gotta say, YOU KILLED THIS REVIEW. It was very acurate of our political situation and complicated state of our country thank you so much!!!
@@reneroux2391 I think it is because every time people express a dislike for the "other" people they cite some historical precedent wether it's real or imagined
Linguistically, cyrillic letters are especially well suited to slavic languages. Kazakh is a turkic language. Changing to latin alphabet also means to get more accessible to "the west". Changing the alphabet twice within a century however also means that those who study historic kazakh literature will have to learn a lot of writing systems.
We all understand that Cyrillic has more letters than Latin which supposes Latin might fit only with using diacritics which nobody prohibits to do in Cyrillic as well. So the only true argument is seeming to be closer to West or Turkey which is quite ridiculous reason for mature nation.
@@rdtgr8 Kazakhs latin alphabet is shit they went for letter combinations instead of diacritics like Turkey... also the entire older generation can't read it
@sfdy edkw It is a fact that Kazakhstan left the USSR on 15-th December 1991 making it the last one to leave the USSR. That explains why the protocols dissolving the USSR were signed in Alma Ata and not in, say, Moscow. The first country to leave the Union was Lithuania on 11-th March 1990
Having lived and worked in Kazakhstan, I think this video is generally very sound in its analysis. Thanks PolyMatter. One minor correction (as others in the comments have mentioned), is that the use of the Julian calendar in Kazakhstan is not a carry over from Soviet Union, but more from the Russian Empire times since the Russian/Eastern Orthodox church insisted on staying with the Julian calendar when most of the West moved to the Gregorian calendar. Also saying that Nursultan Nazarbayev actually 'won' 97.7% of the vote in 2015 is controversial, I think it would be more accurate to say that 'it was announced that he won 97.7% of the vote'...
sure about the Julian calendar som confuses Russia and USSR and insists Staline was Russian as Trotsky ( ukrainien) the monster dzerjinsky was also russian ( polish) the problem is always anti Russian propaganda or illetratcy
@@louisecorchevolle9241 You know fully well why rulers of the USSR as labeled Russian and its not anti-russian propaganda. Russia was the most influential and powerfull of the soviet republics and the glue that held it all together. There is no great ideological leap to be made by saying they were russians specially because the forces they commanded and the influence they were spreading were indeed more russian than anything else.
@@louisecorchevolle9241 anti Russian sentiment and the fact that the Soviet Union is referred to as Russia and the leaders Russian have nothing to do with each other. The Russian Soviet Republic conquered all the other states that used to be a part of the Russian empire. That is why the west always talks about Russia and Russian when referring to the USSR. It has to do with history not propaganda. The anti Russian sentiment is due to it invading it's neighbours and committing of genocide in the occupied territories. First as the Russian empire, than to establish the Soviet Union and now again as the Russian Fascist Federation.
As someone who has learned other languages as a hobby I can say that learning to read can actually be pretty easy. If you already know the language it's pretty simple. Especially if the language has set "sounds". Not so sure about Russian but when I learned Japanese for instance the base syllable letters katakana/hiragana took a couple weeks at most to learn. Korean is the same way, very simple.
Extremely accurate on most of the points. Being Kazakh myself, I can only argue that the biggest problem in the country is not hidden beneath cultural identity or geographical location. Instead, it is located in the structure of the inner state and selfishness of many politicians in it. It would be obvious to say that growing corruption is the biggest problem in Kazakhstan, but it would not make it any less truthful. We might find possible explanation in Russia’a immense pressure from North. However I personally believe that it should not be an obstacle on the way of the future generation in achieving just division of wealth, effective government, or, at the very least, fair judicial system for all citizens across vast steppes of Kazakhstan.
I hope the corruption you mentioned is resolved eventually, but I'd just like to say your English is really impressive! Did you learn in Kazakhstan or abroad?
"Just division of wealth"? Сам понял че сказал? Эти динозавры скорее удавятся, а лучше всех остальных передавят, чем пойдут на какое-либо "перераспределение".
@@kazaktranslator9850 тогда не было интернета, был телик, радио и газеты которые полностью контролировались властью. Пропаганда работала. Сейчас не работает.
As a "russian" living in the Kazakhstan, I never felt like a second-class citizen. In fact, never in my life I associated myself with Russia, but rather Kazakhstani. I fully support transition to latin alphabet, although we have better ways to spend money on right now and cut on the corruption, this os a much needed move to build Kazakhstani identity domestically and internationally.
Then, just my personal wonder, why those significant russians in Ukraine very attractive to unite themselves to Russia? Both countries had much closer history than Russia to the Kazakh, so it's more logically to happened to the place where it's not really had greater bonding. (I know my question already give it's answer but i just wanna knows your opinion.)
@@the_xsx Those Russian Russians ignite the fire between Kazakhs and Russians in Kazakhstan, but if you go to Russia they will not recognize you as Russian, but rather will call you "churka" and will speak you down.
We all have infinite personalities. At the core we are all the same. You as an entity are a psychological illusion. We are all just actors wearing whatever mask we think is most appropriate for the scene. Sleep well :)
100% true. I am kinda kazakh and I can prove this. Whenever they see a person from the neighbouring countries who is kinda rich they try to kiss their butt all the time and earn some money or smth valuable.
You are right. Our government always want to be like a "highly developed" Western countries. Yeah they are very developed, but there is no individuality in our politics. There is nothing that we produce, which would be our unique symbol(
I like how around 3:07 subtitles suddenly appear quickly going over some sort of atrocities that went on in Kazakhstan, but which aren't said out loud.
@@williamjames212 you have to enable CC (subtitles) and there, at 3:05 there are several quick flashes of text that are never read out loud. They read: _During this time, "undesirables" were sent to labor camps in Kazakhstan on Soviet orders. These brutal prisons, one, the size of France, were used for mining and agricultural labor, while punishing those deemed problematic by the regime._
Also we have our joke: "my name is Nazarbaev. I live in Nazarbaev street and i go to Nazarbaev school. I'll going to Nur-Sultan by Nazarbaev Airport." - Nursultan Abishuly Nazarbaev
Democracy sucks If you want to solve the problem you need long term strategy Or your country will be ruined like Ukraine They cannot solve any problem because of decentralization of power Their leaders have too little time Also all people are too ignorant to vote Ukraine let stupid people to vote for actor that filmed in movie where his character was president that solve all problems Zelenskiy If South Korea had no dictatorship they wouldnt be south Korea that we know They had plans, goals and power to realize
man boc the country isn’t in a position to be democratic at the moment. It seems like things are going well and they’re getting past their crisis period. Hopefully, they can transition to a stable democracy peacefully after his death. Until then, they to escape the bear without poking it
@@greenday1610 So how is the USA the most powerful country in the world? And why the western democracies have the biggest economies, prosperity and political power?
@@greenday1610 Yeah, look how well authoritarian countries are dealing with corona crisis. Surely, they returned taxes to revitalize the economy and funded medical staff, and did not manipulate statistics and (unsuccessfully) force people to stay home without paying shit? ...Right?
12:17 - “It’s true fragility is never quite known - discontent is masked by fear of punishment for speaking out, until, all at once, it’s let loose, and the previously restrained anger suddenly boils over. A perfectly stable-appearing authoritarian state can rapidly descend into chaos, but it’s impossible to know when or if such revolution is coming.” Well... it’s the first week of January of 2022 and it’s very interesting to read all that right now. Seems like this video needs some updates. It seems like the answer to “when will the anger boil over” could well be just “3 years”, but let’s hope the Kazakhs can achieve Peace and Prosperity after these historic events.
Having been in Kazakhstan, it really felt like being in the 4th dimension. - 3/4 of muslim asians, 1/4 of christian blonde blue eyed european russians. You get both huge mosques and big cathedrals. - the capital feels like a little Dubaï, but you can still feel the USSR influence in the poor people buildings and the uniformed person who verifies every ticket in buses. - Huuuge mass area compared to population and you can feel this, but still almost everyone lives in a flat. - very few people speak english, everybody assumes you speak russian even at the airport. Sometimes even the most basic english words are not understood. - there is a giant mall in a glass tent with a water park on top of it. It was really special, man. Felt like a weird dream.
If you consider nature, it is astonishing in some of the areas, especially the Almaty region. However, the infrastructure in the majority of the cities here is underdeveloped.
seems to me as a likely place for one of the main chapters of WW3 if there's ever gonna be a WW3, so if you're planning to visit I'd say do it while it's still in one piece
Back in the early aughts, my cousin was adopted from Kazakhstan. My grandparents, who went to support my aunt and uncle, brought me back a book as a souvenir, probably purchased at that very airport, and it was a simple folklore story that I don't remember anything about. What I do remember about that book, is that it was written in 3 languages. In English, in Russian, and finally in Kazakh. I feel like this was just foreshadowing.
There is a textbook on the Kazak language, which also introduces into customs and traditions of the Kazak people. The Latin alphabet is used there. Bielefeld, Germany, 2010
@@s.a.8548 Actually there are 3 colors specific for that religion: green, black and white. Look at the flags of Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Sudan, Turkmenistan, Yemen, Zambia, Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan, Algeria, etc.
@@lesliefranklin1870 most, if not all Orthodox Christians (Russians included) celebrate Christmas according to the old (Julian) calendar to this day. :)
@@evzenvarga9707 It’s impossible to write Mongolian properly in a Latin script. The youth uses Latin letters but have kind of their own slang and code words. The traditional script fits the language like a glove
This gave me chills: With CC (subtitles) enabled at 3:04 there are several quick flashes of text that are never read out loud. They read: _During this time, "undesirables" were sent to labor camps in Kazakhstan on Soviet orders. These brutal prisons, one, the size of France, were used for mining and agricultural labor, while punishing those deemed problematic by the regime._
Yep, the Soviets were much worse than Hitler. Hitler was really bad too, but when you measure the people hurt and killed, USSR "wins" by a lot. I hate it when someone is light on them as a Hungarian (a former soviet-occupied state).
This 'missive' may have to do with: "Stalin wanted to absorb eastern Poland into the Soviet Union as quickly as possible in the late 1930's, and the job of NKVD (essentially the Soviet Union’s secret service.) officers was to squash any potential resistance. The Soviet leadership quickly labeled certain professions as dangerous, and made sure that agents went after any Polish person who held such a role - military veterans, foresters, civil servants and policemen, among others. Many Polish citizens were deported as a result. *In February 1940, NKVD agents rounded up some 14,000 people on Stalin’s orders. Those arrested were placed in freight trains and shipped off to forced labor settlements in Kazakhstan or Siberia. More deportations followed. All in all, some 50,000 people died from the stresses of travel alone.* Educated Poles were also seen as a threat. The NKVD knew that Poland’s political and social fabric would disintegrate without an educated class, so they identified and arrested anyone in it. Some 25,000 Poles took part in resistance groups. At the time, some 97 percent of prisoners in Soviet labor camps were educated Poles. Conditions in work camps were terrible, and many laborers died during their time in the camps."
I live in Kazakhstan, near one of those prisons, it's located in the small town Dolinka, the name of the prison - KarLag. Nowadays a museum, really scary place, especially if you read very closely. For example there was a prisoner, sent there by Stalin, and the day Stalin died, he still cried and grieved him. Just imagine the sheer size of the personality cult he built.
Thank you for your interesting video. Actually before switching from Arabic to Cyrillic, there was a short period of Latin script inbetween. It was also part of Moscow´s policy to keep its Turkic nations away from its rival in the region - the largest Turkic nation - Turkey which uses Latin letters since Ata Turk reforms.
Oh no, the last time I searched about Kazakhstan was a year ago and when I searched it, I was shocked that Astana was no longer the name of the capital. Hope they’ll bring it back to Astana, lovelots from the Philippines
Maybe all the letters that have an apostrophe have a common sound which group them together (such a fricative or a plosive) and there isn't a non adjusted version of that sound for Y in their language...
I came in to the video wanting to know why they changed alphabets, and I came out of it with detailed historical analysis of the relationship between Kazakhs and ethnic slavs, especially in the north of the country. The switch in the capital now makes a lot of sense. Thank you for this! I need to watch more PolyMatter!
GREAT video about an overlooked country! Thank you for making this. Excellent short video with a lot of info cleverly packed inside, with terrific graphics. Well done!
As a kazakh, I am glad that someone did a proper research on our history. Thank you! Our country is sometimes misrepresented in “educational” videos (a BBC journalist showed that everyone in Kazakhstan uses shaman rituals, which is a lie)
Oh you released video about Kazakhstan just before independence day. Thank you for this video and providing honest overview. I am kazakh and personaly don't like this initiative to change alphabet, government could spend this money for more important things like removing corruption on lower levels and rising GDP , also many young and clever people leave country for best quality of life and salaries, that is sad
It will only work if it is done with other changes. If Kazakhstan only wants to distance itself from Russia, then this might work. But if it looks to Turkey and says "they changed their alphabet, look at how successful they are now! We're going to do the same!" - it's not going to work. Turkey became successful because they modernized, not just because they changed their alphabet.
Astana was a way better name As for changing of the alphabet it's completely unnecessary and probably a political move. Kazakhstan could have easily used Serbian model for example where both Latin and Cyrillic alphabets are equal.
We are very modern like US and A. After the reforms of 2012 by Bagdor The Rapist, women now can ride on INSIDE of bus, and gays no longer need to wear a Blue Hat and can hold jobs dealing with the public, and with children, so long as 4 other adults or 20 other children are in the room at all time.
Not many know, but in Hebrew there are 2 types of letters: type 1 for writing, and type 1 for typing and printing. We learn the letters of the font in kindergarten, and the letters of the script in the 1st or 2nd grade. It's so simple, but it's great to have a type of letters that can be written with the greatest ease. I wish Kazakhstan to succeed in learning the new Alpha Beit 🇮🇱❤️🇰🇿
Do kazak plan to keep Cyrillic around and Russian language ? Reading their lows I see they are not. Then they limit their people to their country borders only. They do a lot of trade with Russia and trying to go away from Russia will not serve them well.
@@gd__vk6991 Идеологически это культ-карго уровня папуасов, строящих самолёт из веток. И вообще то, что нельзя "пощупать" такая субъективщина для манипуляций, что всерьёз воспринимать невозможно.
how about writing down on a piece of paper? or u know note app in ur phone its a pretty stupid service in my opinion i just write my passwords down on a notebook that i have
That actually happened to me :( But I knew my separate passwords. So it wasn't much of a problem. Moral of the story is never centralize your passwords.
19 December 2019, Palermo, Sicily. Will Frank, yeah. The U.S.A. switching to the Metric System would be a good thing. And could you also please switch from saying "How are you doing today?" to people you meet for the first time to "hi", "hello" or similar? That would be good too. You all have no idea how rude it sounds "How are you doing today?" coming out from the mouth of somebody you have never seen before in your life. When some American says that to me I just ignore and pretend I haven't heard what they have just said but in truth I really would like to reply to them "Who the fuck are you to ask me how I am today you dickhead?" Oh, and while I am at it, could you also switch from "...'preciate it" to "you're welcome"? Thank you.
@@horribleIRUKANDJI 24 December 2019, Palermo, Sicily. horribleIRUKANDJI, yes, life is quite hard when nobody likes you but we, Italians, are still going to manage, as we have for long time, without being liked by other Nationalities. Now, out of curiosity, in your language, Russian or a similar one that uses the Cyrillic alphabet (that's what your RUclips page indicates to me), when you meet someone for the first time, do you tell them words like "hello" or do you ask "how they are today"? I would like to know.
@@benedettobruno1669 I don't, simply because it is not common in my area. Here, people respect personal space (mostly) and don't bother each other with small talks, unless they are at least acquaintances. In general, I noticed, it depends on the region: the less "Russian" the area is, the more people are open to strangers (well, except maybe Odessa). And that is perfectly fine. Some cultures do have that small-talk trait while others respect personal boundaries more. That is not wrong. What _is_ wrong is being ignorant towards acknowledgement of those differences. So I never freak out once approached by an American asking how is my day. Although, it felt strange at first, especially the fact that you don't actually need to tell the story of your day. There is a stereotype that Italians are extroverted ("Rosetto effect" is an exaggerated example) even though southerners and northerners are diametrically different. Taking into account that you are from Sicily, I am a little surprised that you say such things.
@@horribleIRUKANDJI 24 December 2019, Palermo, Sicily. horribleIRUKANDJI, I liked your reply. And it also further proves to me that "how are you doing today?" is definitely not the way people in ex-Soviet Union countries, or Italy, (or Europe for that matter) approach one another. I have been studying English for ages and I am not new to the way U.S.Aians greet people, yet that expression does sound rude to me and I am unlikely to be convinced otherwise. Yes, there is a stereotype that Italians are extroverted but in my view that's only a superficial extroversion, not real and to my eyes often cringey and cheesy. Italy doesn't really exist. It's a political invention like the Soyúz Sovétskikh Sotsialistícheskikh Respúblik or the European Union. No surprise if one day Italy will crumble like the U.S.S.R. did and like the European Union is about to. You are right in pointing out that Northern and Southern Italians are diametrically different. We are as different as the Mingrelians of Georgia and the Estonians. Enough with my Christmas Eve's ravings! But it's not my fault. It's the Stolichnaya vodka I have been drinking tonight so all in all it's your fault horribleIRUKANDJI!
Use of the Latin alphabet will greatly increase, and ease interaction with the non-Slavic world. North and South America, Europe, Africa, the Pacific etc. A common alphabet greatly simplifies learning English, French, German, Spanish, etc. This will boost the Kazakh economy over time.
Im Kazakh I agree with u we defiently must use Latin to return right sounds of Kazakh Language, to keep better relationship with our related countries and with the world
@@jazirafaydarisqizikz9384 I'm curious, did the imposition of cyrillic also impose russian pronunciation? did you lose sounds? And I agree with everyone else. Cyrillic was purpose built for Russian and Russian sounds. и, ы, е, э, ш, щ, and so on. This alphabet doesn't work well for other languages, at least if you stick to Russian pronunciation. Now that Kazakh has its own purpose built alphabet, it will make much more sense, and I'm happy to see they're using things like "ch" instead of a ч replacement character
@@moonasha definitely it is. Russian made huge influence on pronunciation of Kazakh language. There are many of examples. But for example I’ll take e. In Kazakh it’s originally e sound like in Enemy. But many people pronounce it as russian e(ye). Erkek(Man) by many people pronounced as yerkiek witch is sounds like little girls name haha or also J(in Kazakh it’s one like in English) but because of russian zh(ж) some people pronounce it that way.
Being kazakh I am amazed on the accuracy and lack of bs in this video, just simple and accurate explanation without any propaganda or stereotypes. Thank you! P. S. It's True, that while Poland and Ukraine have had many disputes with Russia when getting back their national identity, we chose the different path - a slower and softer way to regain our identity yet keeping balance within the country and on geopolitical arena, also as a nation we are not really aggressive and hot blooded Many westerners shame our government being totalitarian but I think for the dangerous geographical situation like ours it's the only way to get through some problems until we get strong enough to make more drastic changes in the future
@@jubanumidia8460 they slaughtered almost 60% of populations in Kazakhstan and Ukraine by setting up an artificial starvation plus they tested nukes in Kazakhstan territory zillion times - how is that not a threat?
@@Gia1911Logous u underestimate the role of Nursultan Nazarbayev in making decisions in Kz) Believe me, it was direct instruction from Nazarbayev😂😂, but technically u r right)
@@Gia1911Logous How about Ho-Chi Minh city? Though from what I understand the locals still call it Saigon if the police aren't listening, and people in north Vietnam still see the south as a "seperate", wealthier country and thus if people's accents betray them as being from there, it's okay to rip them off.
From linguistic perspective, Turkic history is pretty wild. For another example, Turkish people went from Turkic alphabet (Gokturk & Uyghur) to Farsi, Arabic, and finally Latin. We can also add Cyrillic if we include the decades of Russian rule in Northeastern Anatolia (Karskaya Oblast) after 1876-1877 Russo Turkish War. Khazars also used Hebrew alphabet.
Yeah... that triggered me quite a bit. They could of gone into the effort to find the correct letter, even if they resemble a letter of the latin alphabet.
An excellent documentary, but you have completely forgotten the part that Kazakhistan is part of the Turkic Council. This is also one of the reasons the alphabet was changed. All Turkic states are either using or switching over to a Latin alphabet now. This council (although not very dominant right now) will have a major impact on future geopolitical issues as the Turkic nations are setting the brick stones to form a union. That is the long-term strategy for all of the countries and something most think tanks and political scientists are overlooking right now, but a Turkic Union with a regional power such as Turkey and another relatively strong power such as Kazakhistan on board will undoubtedly change the whole political landscape, not just in the region, but in all of the world. I think you should have added this to the equation, otherwise a very comprehensive and mind-opening documentary. As always.
The Soviet Union used the Julian calendar, for less than a year and for most of that time only as a formality and as an addition to the Gregorian calendar
The US technically has a middle ground in the matter, since they teach metric and imperial in school which just makes it harder to learn either by keeping track of the two conflicting systems and constantly learning how to convert metric to imperial and vice versa. That’s mostly why I don’t know metric very well since they teach it poorly and both.
@@kentcyclist you're American probably, it's safe to say that if there's a country with no culture, it's the US. Everything in the US used to be Brittish until it isn't anymore. Or just a conglomerate of foreign cultures by migrants.
You most probably are gonna be mistaken for local, because I am 99% of time mistaken for Filipino. Even Filipinos think I am kabayan ffs. We look alike, but Kazakhs are bigger and paler as climate is different.
I am Kazakh and come on, that movie was ridiculous. Also it made before the fully unknown "stan" country famous and rised the tourism. Moreover during that time most of Kazakhstan really looked like that poor village. Glad, it has changed in 14 years
I love you Kazakhstan from a fellow turk. We were one nation centuries ago and I am sure that many turks would gladly migrate to Kazakhstan if they are given the opportunity to settle there.
@@strawberrychco7724 central asia belong us TURKS. I am Yörük Türkmen from Turkey. My family comes from central asia. If we want we TURKS take whole central asia back.
Kazakhstan looks so beautiful! And the flag is pretty too. Im glad they switched to latin alphabet to differentiate themselves. Maybe it will be easier for people to learn kazakh now!
It's so funny to watch videos like this about your own country and I get where the authors are coming from Kazakhstan is truly an authoritarian regime but I would argue about other points they made. But generally it's a well done video, good job PolyMatter! The reality is that Kazakhstan is super diverse and when I say diverse I actually mean it when you travel from one city to another it's a complete different place and it almost feels like a different country due to their own rules, ethno-linguistical environment and so on. You have to understand that Kazakhstan is bigger than a whole western Europe and I haven't been to many places inside Kazakhstan but I gotta say this it is very hard to maintain this country as a whole nation without a centralized idea, hopefully this new president will build a democracy at least from what we are seeing in recent couple of years he seemingly starting to doing so media is not controlled like in previous years you can openly share your disagreement with current government and there's no longer a fear of being prosecuted for any "wrongdoings" towards the government unlike russia for example. Also about slavic people in Kazakhstan it all depends on regions as I previously mentioned Kazakhstan is super large and divers in many regions Russians are even in majority and they get to decide who will be their representative but in other places Russia with its imperial history is considered an oppressor. So you never know what to expect from people there's no centralized opinion on this from the government and it's very careful with its statements towards Russia. Although I believe Kazakhstanis even ethnically russian ones are consider themselves kazakhs and don't associate themselves with Russia whatsoever. And Northern Kazakhstan separatism threat is exaggerated as it was mentioned in the video Kazakhstan will protest anything that has a threat to their sovereignty as they protested against China deal. Kazakhs weren't treated well by both Russians and Chinese in the past ( and still in the Xinjiang region where up to 1.5 million kazakhs live not only uyghurs). And yet again, thanks for the video!
With the recent unrest, what do people think of the invited Russian intervention? Do you know people who went protesting or people who support the intervention?
@@LMvdB02 it's not only russian forces that were invited. People here mostly confused why would they be invited in the first place but knowing that those forces are only keeping some strategic places safe and already going back home people generally think it's fine as long as they are not planning to stay long which they won't
Ты сраный русский пропагандист! Какие нахер казахстанские русские считают себя Казахами и с парашей себя не ассоцируют!? Заткнись вообще, и не смей говорить от лица моей страны и моего народа!
Since you are already in Central Asia, why don't you throw some light on the topological renovations the Soviets did in the Aral Sea or I should call Aral pond.
I am a 17-year-old kazakh girl. I used to write only in cirilic alphabet during my entire life. I graduated from school using it. But the thing is that relearning latin version is hella hard when youre not writing in kazakh everyday like it was in school. Most of my friends also find it difficult to switch. Well, i can speak only for myself, but damn i dont like the latin version. Its too complicated. I am not actually sure if that change will work or not at the end of the day :/
Love your channel. It is so educational and fun to watch. I am watching so many of your videos now. I wish RUclips have suggested your channel to me sooner. Keep up posting all the amazing videos. Thanks for sharing your knowledge to the world.
It isn't about complexity in this case - it is more to do with identify. Many other Turkic nations are using Latin Alphabets (Turkey is a fine example) and former some Soviet Turkic republics have already made the conversion.
@Alex Mercer you must be incredibly fuckin stupid if you think replacing Hangul with Latin would be a good idea. This just proves you don't know the basic foundations of the Korean language or linguistics at all. You just admitted to us that you're a dumbass, this stupid idea makes as much sense as switching English to the Thai script. Shut the fuck up about shit you don't understand.
@Alex Mercer Korean pronunciation is absolutely slaughtered when written in the Latin alphabet. Not to mention that the same word with the same pronunciation can be written in multiple ways in the Latin alphabet. This would make proper pronunciation impossible, especially for non-native Korean speakers. Some sounds represented by Hangul flat out don't exist in English. This is all around a terrible idea, and would be a terrible idea for most other languages. This idea of alphabets not of Latin origin being "redundant" is ridiculous and ignorant of how language actually works.
But it is not an accurate comparison. Chinese characters are logograms. Sejong replaced the logographic system with a featural alphabet, Hangul. Kazakhstan, on the other hand, replaced one alphabet with another alphabet.
Every one under each video about Kazakh language or kazakhstan talks about Dimash but I've been vibing with qpop for a little while and didn't even know his existence....I thought Ninety One were more famous x)
Wishing all the best for our Kazakh,Kyrgyz ,Tajek and Turkmen brothers . Bright minds came from that areas guided in advancing the world and added to our Islamic heritage. A distant Syrian brother. And btw great video( content and editing)👍thank you.
This is bad, interesting country because someone famous people burned there. Dimash not only famous in Kazakstan, we have q pop, don't muddled with k pop. Sorry my English not good
Malaysia also got many² festival such as kaamatan, gawai, hari raya, Christmas and the list goes on.. As a person who got multiracial friends i got the chance to celebrate all this festival... 😂 the most important thing is FOOD
I learned a lot by watching this video . I have been sort of curious about Kazakhstan for a long time and this video really satisfied a lot of my curiosity.
dear author, thanks for this video. just some notes: 1) Latin alphabet seems to be changed as the second President, Tokayev, don't like the last version of it. 2) We still use Cyrillic Kazakh alphabet. The transmission is postponed... 3) our education system has had so many reforms since getting Independence, it's a nightmare. This transmission of alphabet is another next crazy reform
@@talialee6364 a lot of people are against it because a new writing system is like learning a new language. Yes the Cyrillic might've been forced on, but it's a comfortable language, and useful to learn russian with. Pretty much nobody alive today remember anything before Cyrillic was a thing, so it'll be a while before we have fluent Latin Kazakh users
Transmission of alphabet is bullshit imho. Why would u change alphabet to Latin one, if you have literally no connection to Latin people? Some arabic language would make more sense
Hey hey, Kazakh person here. Really liked your vid, and is true... A Lot of random events and a lot of high level players have been around KZ for a lot of its lifetime, yet despite its progress has been quit rapid, since it left ussr. Actually you are like one person, who made me quite proud about my country haha
Wonderful emir wonderful people there. I just posted my experiences above over two trips. I absolutely loved it. Warm friendly people and delicious food and beautiful women!! My only mistake was going once in January and I almost froze to death lol. I was there for work so no real choice but I hope to go back soon
@@randomdude1053 nice to hear my dude, usually people tell me that Kazakhs (Btw correcting your spelling) in other countries are very nice to interact with
@@ЗакатРассвет-ы2ж do you mean, that Poland sky rocketed to not being third world country and we didn't? Well, Kazakhs are either lazy/rich, or very much from village/poor? I guess... While Poland is also in EU.... Soooo
Also, before joining Russian Empire Kazakh language was written in Latin alphabet, after joining it changed to Cyrillic. Many people have forgotten or don't even know that. You could still find very old kazakh books written in Latin.
Wrong. We didn't use Latin alphabet of Kazakh before joining Russian empire. We used Arabic writing system. When we were a part of Soviet Union we changed from Arabic to Latin script in 1929, but not for a long time. And in 1940 we started to use Cyrillic writing system.
@@Raptor35602 "...we changed from Arabic to Latin script in 1929...." That sounds like @Mill K is correct. A book from 1929 might be called very old by someone. Actually I think @Mill K overstated his point, but his main point was correct.
Wow that's wild. I was lucky enough to get to visit Kazakhstan in 2016, on the way back to the US from Asia. It was definitely interesting, though I was in Almaty, not Astana (now Nur Sultan.) It's crazy to think how much this country is going to change in the few years since I saw it in person!
"old new year" is a left-over from the Soviet days ? Wow that's only one century wrong. Julian calendar was dropped at the very beginning of the Soviet era.
The Vietnamese did it 150 years ago, in the 2nd half of 19th century. They adopted Latin alphabets to write and casted away Chinese writing systems which is very difficult to write and to memorize. This conversion significantly helped boost the literacy rate in the country. We don't even use "j, z, w".
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Lol
Waiting for some hong kong perspective
Do one on Hong Kong. China is a trash place with a trash government.
You put an L ( л ) instead of an N ( н) in KazakistaN in the intro
aakksshhaayy You could insult our government, but I couldn’t allow you to insult our land.
Title: Kazakh Alphabet
Video: Complete history and economy of Kazakhstan
that is funny but essential to understand the situation of the country(my motherland). It is hard to be between Dangerous "dragon" and Aggressive "bear" you know. Nonetheless, we are a happy nation and we will not give our independence neither to china nor Russia.
That's clickbait, baby.
(not even shade, it's a great way to attract traffic for an otherwise boring sounding video)
@@aspandiyarkossanov7267 LOVE FROM TURKEY!
Came for the alphabet; stayed for the history.
@@imaginaryguide1895 Me too!
I'm just in love with Kazakh flag and its colors
same here
Don’t know what to say. For me as a kazakh person myself or kazakh people i know, it seemed regular and... boring
The Kazakh flag is pretty cool 👍🇰🇿🇦🇺
@@thequeanie9829 Listen up! I'm from france! Not more regular than my flag x)
Though, I'm also english and I find the UK flag pretty cool...
IT'S BAE TBH
Nursultan: look how humble I am. I’m really humble. I’m the best at being humble.
Not as bad as Saparmurat Niyazov. What a man he was
Seems to be a trend among incompetent politicians to boast ov their humility as if it's some fucking badge to boost public opinion.
Win election with 97% of the vote, I must.
Sounds like Trump 😂
It's the good advice, that you just didn't take.
oh my god, I am a kazakh citizen and I gotta say, YOU KILLED THIS REVIEW. It was very acurate of our political situation and complicated state of our country
thank you so much!!!
Сол мен де соны жаздым
After Ukraine, Putin will want Kazakhstan and Georgia.
Kazakhstan: Imagine being stuck between China and Russia.
Mongolia: You talking to me?!
Pretty sure Kazaks don't like the Mongolians very much you know after that conquering business
@@rejvaik00 It was almost millenia ago...
Doesn't matter people hold historic grudges
@@rejvaik00 that aint what he meant
@@reneroux2391 I think it is because every time people express a dislike for the "other" people they cite some historical precedent wether it's real or imagined
gone from Arabic to Cyrillic to Latin, so their older citizens probably know three alphabets lol
I'm 19 and I know all three of them
@Bob Smith not for our language, too many unnecessary letters. I personally like Latin based alphabet, especially one made by activists, Kazak Grammar
@Bob Smith You want a cool alphabet ? Use Klingon, puny human.
Frank Schneider Klingon’s alphabet looks like shit.
Zeyin Waqıt I’m 13 and I know all three :>
I'm kinda sad that Astana was switched to Nur-Sultan
i was born in astana. people have changed.. they dont like russians nowadays. thats at least what i have noticed
Russian washed The last of USSR legacy
@@BlackDeathFTW I am a mixed Korean, but people mix me for being Kazakh
@@BlackDeathFTW почему?
I much prefer Astana over Nur-Sultan.
3:40 Not really.
Kazakhstan was the last country to leave the USSR. For couple of days, Kazakhstan was the USSR.
The USSR still existed as a landless formal entity tho if I remember it right, before it was officially dissolved
@@martinmendl1399 Order of Malta 2?
You also need to change your alphabet. What are those stupid things in your name? Supposed to be letters?
@@marioluigi9599
I'm so sorry I'm not MURICAN'^tm...
@@marioluigi9599 It's called Hebrew, one of the oldest languages in the world.
But of course you knew that didn't you מריו לואיג'י
Linguistically, cyrillic letters are especially well suited to slavic languages. Kazakh is a turkic language. Changing to latin alphabet also means to get more accessible to "the west".
Changing the alphabet twice within a century however also means that those who study historic kazakh literature will have to learn a lot of writing systems.
It'll complicate things. But it can help them by knowing multiple languages indirectly.
We all understand that Cyrillic has more letters than Latin which supposes Latin might fit only with using diacritics which nobody prohibits to do in Cyrillic as well. So the only true argument is seeming to be closer to West or Turkey which is quite ridiculous reason for mature nation.
@@rdtgr8 this.
@@rdtgr8 Kazakhs latin alphabet is shit they went for letter combinations instead of diacritics like Turkey... also the entire older generation can't read it
It's not like latin alphabet suits Turkic languages better tho
I have this flag tattooed on my arm after living and working in Kaz for nearly 10 years. Wonderful people and place.
Wow! Kudos to you bro! From Kazakh.
Respect bratan!
Respekt i uvazhuha! 🤓
Weeeeiiiirrrd🙁🙁🙁
Did you start coloured revolution last year?😂😂😂😂
Fun thing: This country was the last to leave the Soviet Union even Russia left earlier
We"ve done it to get more territory lol.
@@Явеличайшийагрономнаэтойпланет Много территории, мало людей, а пробки на дорогах часто. Мдээ
@@BLACKMETAL9224 ештене етпейди. Осемиз гой
@sfdy edkw It is a fact that Kazakhstan left the USSR on 15-th December 1991 making it the last one to leave the USSR. That explains why the protocols dissolving the USSR were signed in Alma Ata and not in, say, Moscow. The first country to leave the Union was Lithuania on 11-th March 1990
@sfdy edkw Maybe they should've googled "how to leave the USSR properly" before going to protest
Having lived and worked in Kazakhstan, I think this video is generally very sound in its analysis. Thanks PolyMatter. One minor correction (as others in the comments have mentioned), is that the use of the Julian calendar in Kazakhstan is not a carry over from Soviet Union, but more from the Russian Empire times since the Russian/Eastern Orthodox church insisted on staying with the Julian calendar when most of the West moved to the Gregorian calendar. Also saying that Nursultan Nazarbayev actually 'won' 97.7% of the vote in 2015 is controversial, I think it would be more accurate to say that 'it was announced that he won 97.7% of the vote'...
sure about the Julian calendar som confuses Russia and USSR and insists Staline was Russian as Trotsky ( ukrainien) the monster dzerjinsky was also russian ( polish) the problem is always anti Russian propaganda or illetratcy
@@louisecorchevolle9241 You know fully well why rulers of the USSR as labeled Russian and its not anti-russian propaganda. Russia was the most influential and powerfull of the soviet republics and the glue that held it all together. There is no great ideological leap to be made by saying they were russians specially because the forces they commanded and the influence they were spreading were indeed more russian than anything else.
If you disagree with the government of Kazakhstan, get the hell out of their country.
@@louisecorchevolle9241 anti Russian sentiment and the fact that the Soviet Union is referred to as Russia and the leaders Russian have nothing to do with each other. The Russian Soviet Republic conquered all the other states that used to be a part of the Russian empire. That is why the west always talks about Russia and Russian when referring to the USSR. It has to do with history not propaganda.
The anti Russian sentiment is due to it invading it's neighbours and committing of genocide in the occupied territories. First as the Russian empire, than to establish the Soviet Union and now again as the Russian Fascist Federation.
Imagine having to teach your entire country a new alphabet.
Mr Torch Ataturk did it
@@saifm2409 In Turkey, you half-wit.
As someone who has learned other languages as a hobby I can say that learning to read can actually be pretty easy. If you already know the language it's pretty simple. Especially if the language has set "sounds". Not so sure about Russian but when I learned Japanese for instance the base syllable letters katakana/hiragana took a couple weeks at most to learn.
Korean is the same way, very simple.
Neonazis Should Speak Deutsch did we?
Neonazis Should Speak Deutsch chinese letters -> korean. So yeah I think you are right
Extremely accurate on most of the points. Being Kazakh myself, I can only argue that the biggest problem in the country is not hidden beneath cultural identity or geographical location. Instead, it is located in the structure of the inner state and selfishness of many politicians in it.
It would be obvious to say that growing corruption is the biggest problem in Kazakhstan, but it would not make it any less truthful. We might find possible explanation in Russia’a immense pressure from North. However I personally believe that it should not be an obstacle on the way of the future generation in achieving just division of wealth, effective government, or, at the very least, fair judicial system for all citizens across vast steppes of Kazakhstan.
Bizdiň halıktıň köbisi Nazarbayev wakıtında tuwılıptı goy😂 ne degen sumdık, osı urpak tezirek ösip cıgarıp jibersek tezirek
Well that sounds like most of the world tbh
I hope the corruption you mentioned is resolved eventually, but I'd just like to say your English is really impressive! Did you learn in Kazakhstan or abroad?
"Just division of wealth"? Сам понял че сказал? Эти динозавры скорее удавятся, а лучше всех остальных передавят, чем пойдут на какое-либо "перераспределение".
@@kazaktranslator9850 тогда не было интернета, был телик, радио и газеты которые полностью контролировались властью. Пропаганда работала. Сейчас не работает.
As a "russian" living in the Kazakhstan, I never felt like a second-class citizen. In fact, never in my life I associated myself with Russia, but rather Kazakhstani. I fully support transition to latin alphabet, although we have better ways to spend money on right now and cut on the corruption, this os a much needed move to build Kazakhstani identity domestically and internationally.
Then, just my personal wonder, why those significant russians in Ukraine very attractive to unite themselves to Russia? Both countries had much closer history than Russia to the Kazakh, so it's more logically to happened to the place where it's not really had greater bonding.
(I know my question already give it's answer but i just wanna knows your opinion.)
Why do you fully support transition to Latin alphabet? What's the point of that shit?
@@ivanpetrov5185 I just don't see how it is hurting anybody.
@@the_xsx Those Russian Russians ignite the fire between Kazakhs and Russians in Kazakhstan, but if you go to Russia they will not recognize you as Russian, but rather will call you "churka" and will speak you down.
@@ivanpetrov5185 what's the point of having a slavic alphabet? Get rid of that shit
Kazakhstan sounds like a friend who tries to fit in with everyone around him with multiple personalities.
It ain't easy being Kazakh ))))
We all have infinite personalities. At the core we are all the same. You as an entity are a psychological illusion. We are all just actors wearing whatever mask we think is most appropriate for the scene. Sleep well :)
@@kazakhpone6814 Eyy, fellow mlp көруші!
100% true. I am kinda kazakh and I can prove this. Whenever they see a person from the neighbouring countries who is kinda rich they try to kiss their butt all the time and earn some money or smth valuable.
You are right. Our government always want to be like a "highly developed" Western countries. Yeah they are very developed, but there is no individuality in our politics. There is nothing that we produce, which would be our unique symbol(
I like how around 3:07 subtitles suddenly appear quickly going over some sort of atrocities that went on in Kazakhstan, but which aren't said out loud.
I did not see it?
@@williamjames212 you have to enable CC (subtitles) and there, at 3:05 there are several quick flashes of text that are never read out loud. They read:
_During this time, "undesirables" were sent to labor camps in Kazakhstan on Soviet orders. These brutal prisons, one, the size of France, were used for mining and agricultural labor, while punishing those deemed problematic by the regime._
@@TheAlexN1305 thanks alot, I know see it.
Lord Farquaad because saying it out loud would anger a bunch of commies in the comments
or it just didn't fit too well in the context, idk
Lord Farquaad he would probably get demonetized for it.
Nur-Sultan? They named it after their former leader, I like it
@Jhon Krasnovskiy Kim Jong-unville
please rename you country to Kim jongunstan
Are you real dictator? Maybe you want some close relationship with Vor-Sultan?
Sup King?
Can you call me for dinner?
I'm more charming than trump :))
Kazakhstan is a fucking dictatorship, it is normal there.
Typing in Cyrillic isn't that hard...🙄 But a Latin alphabet makes your language more readable to tourists and foreigners.
Gokturk Alphabet is better than Cryril and others.
Edit: No.
@@katitobyt why it's literally the same, just different lol
@@xexpaguette Sorry,I meant Gokturk Alphabet
well...this has nothing o do with simplicity, they just want to be farther from Russia, and more tourist friendly...
@@katitobyt oh its ok
All I know is that Astana sounded so beautiful and unique and now when I can finally visit It will feel weird to say I'm in Nur Sultan lol
we dont care of ur feeling , we care about their people culture
@@mohammedkoudri3838 Yeah but I mean isn't Nur Sultan their presidents name? I'm not a fan of that.
Washington also was named to an American's president
@@irisselene2325 Nur sultan also means king of light
@@mohammedkoudri3838 dictators do that all the time
Also we have our joke:
"my name is Nazarbaev. I live in Nazarbaev street and i go to Nazarbaev school. I'll going to Nur-Sultan by Nazarbaev Airport."
- Nursultan Abishuly Nazarbaev
And my name is Nūrsūltan
@@Nurikanski my name is goldun Khan
>Wins election by 97.7%
Nazarbyev: Sorry. We'll try to be more democratic next time.
How mad is these dictators
I feel for this country and it's people
Democracy sucks
If you want to solve the problem you need long term strategy
Or your country will be ruined like Ukraine
They cannot solve any problem because of decentralization of power
Their leaders have too little time
Also all people are too ignorant to vote
Ukraine let stupid people to vote for actor that filmed in movie where his character was president that solve all problems
Zelenskiy
If South Korea had no dictatorship they wouldnt be south Korea that we know
They had plans, goals and power to realize
man boc the country isn’t in a position to be democratic at the moment. It seems like things are going well and they’re getting past their crisis period. Hopefully, they can transition to a stable democracy peacefully after his death. Until then, they to escape the bear without poking it
@@greenday1610 So how is the USA the most powerful country in the world? And why the western democracies have the biggest economies, prosperity and political power?
@@greenday1610 Yeah, look how well authoritarian countries are dealing with corona crisis. Surely, they returned taxes to revitalize the economy and funded medical staff, and did not manipulate statistics and (unsuccessfully) force people to stay home without paying shit?
...Right?
12:17 - “It’s true fragility is never quite known - discontent is masked by fear of punishment for speaking out, until, all at once, it’s let loose, and the previously restrained anger suddenly boils over. A perfectly stable-appearing authoritarian state can rapidly descend into chaos, but it’s impossible to know when or if such revolution is coming.”
Well... it’s the first week of January of 2022 and it’s very interesting to read all that right now. Seems like this video needs some updates. It seems like the answer to “when will the anger boil over” could well be just “3 years”, but let’s hope the Kazakhs can achieve Peace and Prosperity after these historic events.
Having been in Kazakhstan, it really felt like being in the 4th dimension.
- 3/4 of muslim asians, 1/4 of christian blonde blue eyed european russians. You get both huge mosques and big cathedrals.
- the capital feels like a little Dubaï, but you can still feel the USSR influence in the poor people buildings and the uniformed person who verifies every ticket in buses.
- Huuuge mass area compared to population and you can feel this, but still almost everyone lives in a flat.
- very few people speak english, everybody assumes you speak russian even at the airport. Sometimes even the most basic english words are not understood.
- there is a giant mall in a glass tent with a water park on top of it.
It was really special, man. Felt like a weird dream.
Almost everything is correct. Except not everyone is religious, some are atheists. And there are some who can speak fluent English.
when i was at a chinese international school we had Kazakh students. seems like a beautiful and interesting place to visit
If you consider nature, it is astonishing in some of the areas, especially the Almaty region. However, the infrastructure in the majority of the cities here is underdeveloped.
which school kevin?
Damir Daukarayev anyway better developed than in most of Chinese cities
But not to invade or claim Chinese sovereignty over the country
seems to me as a likely place for one of the main chapters of WW3 if there's ever gonna be a WW3, so if you're planning to visit I'd say do it while it's still in one piece
Back in the early aughts, my cousin was adopted from Kazakhstan. My grandparents, who went to support my aunt and uncle, brought me back a book as a souvenir, probably purchased at that very airport, and it was a simple folklore story that I don't remember anything about. What I do remember about that book, is that it was written in 3 languages. In English, in Russian, and finally in Kazakh. I feel like this was just foreshadowing.
There is a textbook on the Kazak language, which also introduces into customs and traditions of the Kazak people. The Latin alphabet is used there. Bielefeld, Germany, 2010
"Before killing 152 people, doctors suspected counterfeit vodka was the cause." Oh my god, call an editor!
Doctors are the cause
they had to go, for the good doctors' work to succeed, u must understand
Hang those doctors. Then fire the proofreaders.
Editor coming to the rescue!!! 🤣😂
I love they flag, it's so pretty! 🇰🇿
agreed, though the blue color is a strange choice for a muslim state
@@ОнуфрийНечепуренко Huh? As far as I'm aware no color is specific to that religion?
flag
@@ОнуфрийНечепуренко давно казахстан стал мусульманской страной?
@@s.a.8548 Actually there are 3 colors specific for that religion: green, black and white. Look at the flags of Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Sudan, Turkmenistan, Yemen, Zambia, Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan, Algeria, etc.
The Julian calendar isn't from its soviet days. The Soviets changed from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar when they came to power.
Even before
To this day, Russians still celebrate Christmas according to the Julian calendar.
@@lesliefranklin1870 most, if not all Orthodox Christians (Russians included) celebrate Christmas according to the old (Julian) calendar to this day. :)
Kazakhstan: Switches to Latin Alphabet.
Everyone: Yay, we can read it now!
Mongolia: Switches to old Mongolian Script.
Everyone: WUH?
Mongolian script looks better tho
@@jcxkzhgco3050 most things look better, latin looks boring.
@@evzenvarga9707 ya, it looks boring. Many languages use it
@@evzenvarga9707 It’s impossible to write Mongolian properly in a Latin script. The youth uses Latin letters but have kind of their own slang and code words. The traditional script fits the language like a glove
Great decision by ancient and patriotic Mongolia.
2:21 Julian calendar is not leftover from Soviets. Julian calendar is still used by Russian orthodox church. But soviets never used Julian calendar
I think they were the ones that replace it
This gave me chills:
With CC (subtitles) enabled at 3:04 there are several quick flashes of text that are never read out loud. They read:
_During this time, "undesirables" were sent to labor camps in Kazakhstan on Soviet orders. These brutal prisons, one, the size of France, were used for mining and agricultural labor, while punishing those deemed problematic by the regime._
Candle Light go up!
Yep, the Soviets were much worse than Hitler. Hitler was really bad too, but when you measure the people hurt and killed, USSR "wins" by a lot. I hate it when someone is light on them as a Hungarian (a former soviet-occupied state).
Sounds completely ridiculous and false, "prisons, one, the size of France"
This 'missive' may have to do with:
"Stalin wanted to absorb eastern Poland into the Soviet Union as quickly as possible in the late 1930's, and the job of NKVD (essentially the Soviet Union’s secret service.) officers was to squash any potential resistance.
The Soviet leadership quickly labeled certain professions as dangerous, and made sure that agents went after any Polish person who held such a role - military veterans, foresters, civil servants and policemen, among others. Many Polish citizens were deported as a result.
*In February 1940, NKVD agents rounded up some 14,000 people on Stalin’s orders. Those arrested were placed in freight trains and shipped off to forced labor settlements in Kazakhstan or Siberia. More deportations followed. All in all, some 50,000 people died from the stresses of travel alone.*
Educated Poles were also seen as a threat. The NKVD knew that Poland’s political and social fabric would disintegrate without an educated class, so they identified and arrested anyone in it.
Some 25,000 Poles took part in resistance groups.
At the time, some 97 percent of prisoners in Soviet labor camps were educated Poles. Conditions in work camps were terrible, and many laborers died during their time in the camps."
I live in Kazakhstan, near one of those prisons, it's located in the small town Dolinka, the name of the prison - KarLag. Nowadays a museum, really scary place, especially if you read very closely. For example there was a prisoner, sent there by Stalin, and the day Stalin died, he still cried and grieved him. Just imagine the sheer size of the personality cult he built.
9:19 That guy is clapping like his life dependent on it...wait
PresidentialWinner Nah I don't think so. It's that he truly cares about his Boi, Kim
@@lookingfortruth1930 maybe he wants more than just caring for his Boi Kim
Ah!Ah!You noticed.
Thank you for your interesting video. Actually before switching from Arabic to Cyrillic, there was a short period of Latin script inbetween. It was also part of Moscow´s policy to keep its Turkic nations away from its rival in the region - the largest Turkic nation - Turkey which uses Latin letters since Ata Turk reforms.
Quite right!!!
Oh no, the last time I searched about Kazakhstan was a year ago and when I searched it, I was shocked that Astana was no longer the name of the capital. Hope they’ll bring it back to Astana, lovelots from the Philippines
Probably not. People are too lazy to protest and a prez is a literal dictator
It can still be called Astana since it literally means "Capital" in their country
we hope too)
Maybe after our dictator's death
@@nursmalik6024 lmao, your name. People are not lazy. Protestors are sent to prison. Мұны меннен де жақсы білесің ғой.
@@alineuni04 I got trolled when they chose my name
7:38 Who's dumb idea was it to have Y with an accent and Y with an apostrophe but not include just Y.
Now there's a mistake in that video
Maybe all the letters that have an apostrophe have a common sound which group them together (such a fricative or a plosive) and there isn't a non adjusted version of that sound for Y in their language...
@@bandobandit353 Oh, that would make sense.
There is 3 version of Y. Must be mistake in video. (I am from Kazakhstan)
Абдуллоعبدالله or maybe the j makes a y sound, like in phonology
I came in to the video wanting to know why they changed alphabets, and I came out of it with detailed historical analysis of the relationship between Kazakhs and ethnic slavs, especially in the north of the country. The switch in the capital now makes a lot of sense. Thank you for this! I need to watch more PolyMatter!
GREAT video about an overlooked country! Thank you for making this. Excellent short video with a lot of info cleverly packed inside, with terrific graphics. Well done!
6:22 is that the dad from the powerpuff girls?
He does kinda look like Professor Utonium lol
@@SorcererShangTsung Professor Utonium*
Professor X is a bald, telepathic cripple.
I’d like to go to Kazakhstan one day to see the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
@Jhon Krasnovskiy 9:37
What chromosome
Btw, Astana means "capital city" in Kazakh
also in Ottoman Turkish. because it actually comes from Persian.
Yavuz Sezer no way
@@yavuzsezer5785 nope
@@beyneqor350 check from Wiktionary, it's really a persian word.
Also in Malayalam from South India.
As a kazakh, I am glad that someone did a proper research on our history. Thank you! Our country is sometimes misrepresented in “educational” videos (a BBC journalist showed that everyone in Kazakhstan uses shaman rituals, which is a lie)
9:17 Those claps look so genuine
Not genuine enough? Send to gulag
Don't ever be the first to stop applauding
Oh you released video about Kazakhstan just before independence day.
Thank you for this video and providing honest overview.
I am kazakh and personaly don't like this initiative to change alphabet, government could spend this money for more important things like removing corruption on lower levels and rising GDP , also many young and clever people leave country for best quality of life and salaries, that is sad
Feed the children and educate them right. Education in, for example, science, is definitely more useful than learning a new alphabet.
It will only work if it is done with other changes.
If Kazakhstan only wants to distance itself from Russia, then this might work.
But if it looks to Turkey and says "they changed their alphabet, look at how successful they are now! We're going to do the same!"
- it's not going to work.
Turkey became successful because they modernized, not just because they changed their alphabet.
The alphabet change doesn't mean that other issues are neglected.
Astana was a way better name
As for changing of the alphabet it's completely unnecessary and probably a political move.
Kazakhstan could have easily used Serbian model for example where both Latin and Cyrillic alphabets are equal.
Language of the whole nation is more important than quality of life
2019: Cyrillic to Latin
2030: Latin to Chinese Simplified
2031 ENGLISH
@Random Person I think the assertion is that it will be an occupation....military, cultural, economic or some combination thereof...
We are very modern like US and A. After the reforms of 2012 by Bagdor The Rapist, women now can ride on INSIDE of bus, and gays no longer need to wear a Blue Hat and can hold jobs dealing with the public, and with children, so long as 4 other adults or 20 other children are in the room at all time.
They’re going to implement it on 2020 though.
@Alex Mercer yes! pinyin
Not many know, but in Hebrew there are 2 types of letters: type 1 for writing, and type 1 for typing and printing. We learn the letters of the font in kindergarten, and the letters of the script in the 1st or 2nd grade. It's so simple, but it's great to have a type of letters that can be written with the greatest ease. I wish Kazakhstan to succeed in learning the new Alpha Beit 🇮🇱❤️🇰🇿
We love Jews but not Israel
I had learned the Hebrew alphabet on my own. But when I decided to learn Hebrew, I was surprised to learn a second one.
Do kazak plan to keep Cyrillic around and Russian language ? Reading their lows I see they are not. Then they limit their people to their country borders only. They do a lot of trade with Russia and trying to go away from Russia will not serve them well.
@@kitty_the_greatаузыңды жап көтек
Interestingly enough, Russia has its own "autonomous" turkic republic that wanted to change Cyrillic to Latin - Tatarstan. Didn't work out though :/
Viki, overtime it'll work Poutine knwos how to handle them
@@PHlophe haha, well then 👌
В чем соль перехода на латиницу?
Кроме карго-культа и распила бабла на переход никаких
@@NickyKun это все идеологически мотивировано. Так что да, распил и есть
@@gd__vk6991 Идеологически это культ-карго уровня папуасов, строящих самолёт из веток. И вообще то, что нельзя "пощупать" такая субъективщина для манипуляций, что всерьёз воспринимать невозможно.
what if you forget your dashlane password :0
love ur vids man (and poly's ofc). keep it up
@Jhon Krasnovskiy Dashlaneception (or, PasswordManagerCeption whatever you wish to call it)
how about writing down on a piece of paper? or u know note app in ur phone its a pretty stupid service in my opinion i just write my passwords down on a notebook that i have
That actually happened to me :( But I knew my separate passwords. So it wasn't much of a problem. Moral of the story is never centralize your passwords.
Well then surely the US can switch to metric, right?? It's honestly less of a leap.
19 December 2019, Palermo, Sicily.
Will Frank, yeah. The U.S.A. switching to the Metric System would be a good thing.
And could you also please switch from saying "How are you doing today?" to people you meet for the first time to "hi", "hello" or similar? That would be good too.
You all have no idea how rude it sounds "How are you doing today?" coming out from the mouth of somebody you have never seen before in your life.
When some American says that to me I just ignore and pretend I haven't heard what they have just said but in truth I really would like to reply to them "Who the fuck are you to ask me how I am today you dickhead?"
Oh, and while I am at it, could you also switch from "...'preciate it" to "you're welcome"?
Thank you.
@@benedettobruno1669 that's why nobody likes Italians lololo
@@horribleIRUKANDJI
24 December 2019, Palermo, Sicily.
horribleIRUKANDJI, yes, life is quite hard when nobody likes you but we, Italians, are still going to manage, as we have for long time, without being liked by other Nationalities.
Now, out of curiosity, in your language, Russian or a similar one that uses the Cyrillic alphabet (that's what your RUclips page indicates to me), when you meet someone for the first time, do you tell them words like "hello" or do you ask "how they are today"? I would like to know.
@@benedettobruno1669 I don't, simply because it is not common in my area. Here, people respect personal space (mostly) and don't bother each other with small talks, unless they are at least acquaintances.
In general, I noticed, it depends on the region: the less "Russian" the area is, the more people are open to strangers (well, except maybe Odessa). And that is perfectly fine. Some cultures do have that small-talk trait while others respect personal boundaries more. That is not wrong. What _is_ wrong is being ignorant towards acknowledgement of those differences. So I never freak out once approached by an American asking how is my day. Although, it felt strange at first, especially the fact that you don't actually need to tell the story of your day.
There is a stereotype that Italians are extroverted ("Rosetto effect" is an exaggerated example) even though southerners and northerners are diametrically different. Taking into account that you are from Sicily, I am a little surprised that you say such things.
@@horribleIRUKANDJI
24 December 2019, Palermo, Sicily.
horribleIRUKANDJI, I liked your reply. And it also further proves to me that "how are you doing today?" is definitely not the way people in ex-Soviet Union countries, or Italy, (or Europe for that matter) approach one another. I have been studying English for ages and I am not new to the way U.S.Aians greet people, yet that expression does sound rude to me and I am unlikely to be convinced otherwise.
Yes, there is a stereotype that Italians are extroverted but in my view that's only a superficial extroversion, not real and to my eyes often cringey and cheesy.
Italy doesn't really exist. It's a political invention like the Soyúz Sovétskikh Sotsialistícheskikh Respúblik or the European Union. No surprise if one day Italy will crumble like the U.S.S.R. did and like the European Union is about to.
You are right in pointing out that Northern and Southern Italians are diametrically different. We are as different as the Mingrelians of Georgia and the Estonians.
Enough with my Christmas Eve's ravings! But it's not my fault. It's the Stolichnaya vodka I have been drinking tonight so all in all it's your fault horribleIRUKANDJI!
Use of the Latin alphabet will greatly increase, and ease interaction with the non-Slavic world. North and South America, Europe, Africa, the Pacific etc. A common alphabet greatly simplifies learning English, French, German, Spanish, etc. This will boost the Kazakh economy over time.
Im Kazakh I agree with u we defiently must use Latin to return right sounds of Kazakh Language, to keep better relationship with our related countries and with the world
Many countries of "Slavic world" write in latin alphabet (Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia....)
And if it wouldn't? You gonna take the responsibility?
@@jazirafaydarisqizikz9384 I'm curious, did the imposition of cyrillic also impose russian pronunciation? did you lose sounds? And I agree with everyone else. Cyrillic was purpose built for Russian and Russian sounds. и, ы, е, э, ш, щ, and so on. This alphabet doesn't work well for other languages, at least if you stick to Russian pronunciation. Now that Kazakh has its own purpose built alphabet, it will make much more sense, and I'm happy to see they're using things like "ch" instead of a ч replacement character
@@moonasha definitely it is. Russian made huge influence on pronunciation of Kazakh language. There are many of examples. But for example I’ll take e. In Kazakh it’s originally e sound like in Enemy. But many people pronounce it as russian e(ye). Erkek(Man) by many people pronounced as yerkiek witch is sounds like little girls name haha or also J(in Kazakh it’s one like in English) but because of russian zh(ж) some people pronounce it that way.
This animation is just getting better and better.
Hari Srinivasan 0:55 humans make mistakes though ;) (cable car)
Being kazakh I am amazed on the accuracy and lack of bs in this video, just simple and accurate explanation without any propaganda or stereotypes. Thank you!
P. S. It's True, that while Poland and Ukraine have had many disputes with Russia when getting back their national identity, we chose the different path - a slower and softer way to regain our identity yet keeping balance within the country and on geopolitical arena, also as a nation we are not really aggressive and hot blooded
Many westerners shame our government being totalitarian but I think for the dangerous geographical situation like ours it's the only way to get through some problems until we get strong enough to make more drastic changes in the future
(plus you have oil)
@Zimmit's FunHouse Adventure since when Russia is a threat ?
@@BBarNavi Oil?
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
@@jubanumidia8460 they slaughtered almost 60% of populations in Kazakhstan and Ukraine by setting up an artificial starvation plus they tested nukes in Kazakhstan territory zillion times - how is that not a threat?
You are totalitarian))) don’t try to justify that shit. I know what I’m talking about, I’m from Belarus)))
Everyone: He named his capital after himself, how selfish
Peter the Great: _sweats in Russian_
George Washington: * ups *
@@kassymovtrtmmmmmm well... ye
But actually nur-sultan and washigton didn't name it themselves
@@Gia1911Logous u underestimate the role of Nursultan Nazarbayev in making decisions in Kz) Believe me, it was direct instruction from Nazarbayev😂😂, but technically u r right)
@@kassymovtrtmmmmmm i mean sure
@@Gia1911Logous How about Ho-Chi Minh city? Though from what I understand the locals still call it Saigon if the police aren't listening, and people in north Vietnam still see the south as a "seperate", wealthier country and thus if people's accents betray them as being from there, it's okay to rip them off.
Kazakhstan is a beautiful country and will remain so. love from Afghanistan
Yes, it will look even better once it's under Russian administration again 😁
@@Eli-tj3ve I don't believe so.
@@Eli-tj3ve f*ck off
@@rahhchan5734 I will right after I see the next wave of Russian settlers move in lol
@@Eli-tj3ve You won't see it as long as the Kazakhs are alive.
Worked in Kaz for four years, loved the people, loved the food. I hope they flourish.
From linguistic perspective, Turkic history is pretty wild.
For another example, Turkish people went from Turkic alphabet (Gokturk & Uyghur) to Farsi, Arabic, and finally Latin.
We can also add Cyrillic if we include the decades of Russian rule in Northeastern Anatolia (Karskaya Oblast) after 1876-1877 Russo Turkish War.
Khazars also used Hebrew alphabet.
Kaзakhstaл - means Kazakhstal. Wrong letter. You need "н" in the end, not "л".
Yeah... that triggered me quite a bit. They could of gone into the effort to find the correct letter, even if they resemble a letter of the latin alphabet.
Does it matter?
@@archangel4670 Gabriel, nothing really matters.
Hunter Railcar
You know what triggers me? People writing “they could of gone”.
It is “they could HAVE gone”!!!!!!
You are easily triggered for a man who shoots his videos of vertically, Mr. Young.
An excellent documentary, but you have completely forgotten the part that Kazakhistan is part of the Turkic Council. This is also one of the reasons the alphabet was changed. All Turkic states are either using or switching over to a Latin alphabet now. This council (although not very dominant right now) will have a major impact on future geopolitical issues as the Turkic nations are setting the brick stones to form a union. That is the long-term strategy for all of the countries and something most think tanks and political scientists are overlooking right now, but a Turkic Union with a regional power such as Turkey and another relatively strong power such as Kazakhistan on board will undoubtedly change the whole political landscape, not just in the region, but in all of the world. I think you should have added this to the equation, otherwise a very comprehensive and mind-opening documentary. As always.
yesssss we are starting :)
Will we see the return of slavery under a new Ottoman Empire?
@@vizibilibende5194 now if only that gergoian leading this country was gone...
Never heard of Turkic Council before. Thanks for the comment.
1:48 actually the second cyrillic character is typed incorrectly, it should be н (N) instead of л (L)
You beat me to it
And ж should be ž (in Europe, but it could be different there)
Maybe he better consult with translator before making video about foreign language?
@@pamirhimalaj1300 that letter is spelled j in Kazakh, e.g. jaqinda
@@pamirhimalaj1300 nah it can stay as j
"Julian calendar of its Soviet days"
WHAT???
The Soviet Union used the Julian calendar, for less than a year and for most of that time only as a formality and as an addition to the Gregorian calendar
thats why the october revolution was actually in november, if i remember correctly^^
Yep, we call it "old new year"
@@johnuferbach9166 That was from Tsarist Russia
Kazakhstan has always been really interesting to me and this video shows partly why, It's also quite beautiful and wild! Hope to visit someday
Elias Gallegos you are welcome
Watch Borat movie 😂😂😂
@@slobodanpaunovic3834 Borat is not from Kazakhstan and he's not kazakh! he shot the film in Romania
@@avezin really, he is a Jew
And the US can't even switch from imperial to metric
They use the metric system. The medicine is measure by milligrams etc.
will they change it when they stop being imperialists?)
The US technically has a middle ground in the matter, since they teach metric and imperial in school which just makes it harder to learn either by keeping track of the two conflicting systems and constantly learning how to convert metric to imperial and vice versa. That’s mostly why I don’t know metric very well since they teach it poorly and both.
@gedeyom gıyamete hamıneya mph is very metric
Oh no, poor Americans again
Hmmm. As a Filipino living in the Philippines my whole life, my curiosity to Central Asia has sky rocketed after i watched this video
Elvin Bert Corvera understandable since the Philippines has no culture
@@kentcyclist coming from someone who is ignorant about the country he is belittling of?
@@kentcyclist you are bold to comment that idiotic statement
@@kentcyclist you're American probably, it's safe to say that if there's a country with no culture, it's the US. Everything in the US used to be Brittish until it isn't anymore.
Or just a conglomerate of foreign cultures by migrants.
You most probably are gonna be mistaken for local, because I am 99% of time mistaken for Filipino. Even Filipinos think I am kabayan ffs. We look alike, but Kazakhs are bigger and paler as climate is different.
Nobody has cared this much about Kazakhstan since the Borat movie came out.
Very nice! How much?
wow that’s actually kinda offending for me as a Kazakh
@@aliyasadibekova3798 по чапалаку бы им )
Jagshemash
I am Kazakh and come on, that movie was ridiculous. Also it made before the fully unknown "stan" country famous and rised the tourism. Moreover during that time most of Kazakhstan really looked like that poor village. Glad, it has changed in 14 years
I love you Kazakhstan from a fellow turk. We were one nation centuries ago and I am sure that many turks would gladly migrate to Kazakhstan if they are given the opportunity to settle there.
No, stay in Turkey, don't come to central asia
So nice to hear that. Thanks for your support and please ignore that comment above from Strawberry Chco.
@Лазар Цветковић yeah true. They are so trying
@@strawberrychco7724 central asia belong us TURKS. I am Yörük Türkmen from Turkey. My family comes from central asia. If we want we TURKS take whole central asia back.
@@bozkurtbala9199 you're definitely 7 or 8 years, old give your moms phone back to her 😉🤣
*Astana means Capital*
If thats the case in my country, our Capital would be called *Darulkhilafa*
Guten Tag, I am from Hauptstadt.
Edit: Google says darulkhilafa is Hindi for Barbarism?
@@leysont Its an urdu word bro.... Which is the official langauge of Pakistan... And it means nothing but *Capital* ..... I am sure about it.
@@immad9706 Then why does Google think it means Barbarism?
@@leysont because you translated it from the wrong language you maggot
Darulkhilafa means the house of the caliphate in arabic, A Very interesting etymological origin, Makes a lotta sense historically too
Kazakhstan looks so beautiful! And the flag is pretty too. Im glad they switched to latin alphabet to differentiate themselves. Maybe it will be easier for people to learn kazakh now!
kazakhs doesn't care about reform cz they all speak Russian xD
Славянка Чистокровная no, we do care, Russian is a ugly language
@@tasbykekerey1203 Only for poor uneducated people from south ahah
Славянка Чистокровная I’m the rich person from Almaty, come to meet me, I show you who care about their mother tongue!
@@tasbykekerey1203 just shut up, please shut up.
So doing what Turkey did about a centurie ago by going full Roman Alphabet.
No it's the Latin script. Romans spoke Latin buddy
Turkey changed from arabic to roman
While kazhak are going from roman(from arabic) to latin
@@chee-max6460 You meant Cyrillic that originated from the Greek Alphabet.
@@jgroenveld1268 This is how Cyrillic was created :
Egyptian hieroglyphs (Ancient Egypt) ->
Proto-Sinaitic
(Sinai Peninsula, Egypt) ->
Phoenician (Lebanon)
->
Greek
(Greece) ->
Cyrillic (Bulgaria)
Turkey is a piece of shit country that still won't take responsibility for the Armenian genocide. Fuck Turkey.
P.S. Century*
They probably didn't use Dashlane
True. I use LastPass.
No, they need skillshare
Vito Scaletta big brother Nursultan saves all my passwords on his server, so I don’t need Dashlane.
It's so funny to watch videos like this about your own country and I get where the authors are coming from Kazakhstan is truly an authoritarian regime but I would argue about other points they made. But generally it's a well done video, good job PolyMatter! The reality is that Kazakhstan is super diverse and when I say diverse I actually mean it when you travel from one city to another it's a complete different place and it almost feels like a different country due to their own rules, ethno-linguistical environment and so on. You have to understand that Kazakhstan is bigger than a whole western Europe and I haven't been to many places inside Kazakhstan but I gotta say this it is very hard to maintain this country as a whole nation without a centralized idea, hopefully this new president will build a democracy at least from what we are seeing in recent couple of years he seemingly starting to doing so media is not controlled like in previous years you can openly share your disagreement with current government and there's no longer a fear of being prosecuted for any "wrongdoings" towards the government unlike russia for example. Also about slavic people in Kazakhstan it all depends on regions as I previously mentioned Kazakhstan is super large and divers in many regions Russians are even in majority and they get to decide who will be their representative but in other places Russia with its imperial history is considered an oppressor. So you never know what to expect from people there's no centralized opinion on this from the government and it's very careful with its statements towards Russia. Although I believe Kazakhstanis even ethnically russian ones are consider themselves kazakhs and don't associate themselves with Russia whatsoever. And Northern Kazakhstan separatism threat is exaggerated as it was mentioned in the video Kazakhstan will protest anything that has a threat to their sovereignty as they protested against China deal. Kazakhs weren't treated well by both Russians and Chinese in the past ( and still in the Xinjiang region where up to 1.5 million kazakhs live not only uyghurs). And yet again, thanks for the video!
With the recent unrest, what do people think of the invited Russian intervention? Do you know people who went protesting or people who support the intervention?
@@LMvdB02 it's not only russian forces that were invited. People here mostly confused why would they be invited in the first place but knowing that those forces are only keeping some strategic places safe and already going back home people generally think it's fine as long as they are not planning to stay long which they won't
@@LMvdB02 and it's clearly not the hottest topic right now. People care more about new government and the promises president made to a nation
Ты сраный русский пропагандист! Какие нахер казахстанские русские считают себя Казахами и с парашей себя не ассоцируют!? Заткнись вообще, и не смей говорить от лица моей страны и моего народа!
Келіспеймін
Since you are already in Central Asia, why don't you throw some light on the topological renovations the Soviets did in the Aral Sea or I should call Aral pond.
more like Aral Desert...
Wouldn't rly blame it on Soviets.
Time stamps don't add up, it decayed the most already after USSR ceased to exist.
More like Aral puddle
@@lanternno8491 It decayed because the Soviets rerouted rivers.
Actually the Aral sea is starting to grow a little bit
I am a 17-year-old kazakh girl. I used to write only in cirilic alphabet during my entire life. I graduated from school using it. But the thing is that relearning latin version is hella hard when youre not writing in kazakh everyday like it was in school. Most of my friends also find it difficult to switch. Well, i can speak only for myself, but damn i dont like the latin version. Its too complicated. I am not actually sure if that change will work or not at the end of the day :/
But it's not only about you but about the future generations
@@bauerjan7887 maybe.. who knows how things will turn on in the future
@@liyartshi.mp4860 as for me there is nothing easier than latin alphabet. And I am just a 19 y.o. student from Almaty
We should make our latin alphabet much similar to Turkish alphabet, not Polish alphabet.
Too complicated? They didn't even change anything! No language reforms whatsoever!
1:47 did you really just took sound "l" and changed it to "n"
He certainly did. I was looking for this comment.
Wait wut?
@@yestermorrow3223 Л=L was moved to Kazakhstan; "Kazakhstal". It should be Kaзаkhstaн
Love your channel. It is so educational and fun to watch. I am watching so many of your videos now. I wish RUclips have suggested your channel to me sooner. Keep up posting all the amazing videos. Thanks for sharing your knowledge to the world.
I am really happy for my Kazakh cognates for their efforts. Selam from Turkey! Assalamu Aleiqum.
Barış Batı Uağalaykum assalam!
Turan jasasın
Uağalaykum assalam turk bayirlarim. Turan jasasin!
Түркі одағы жасасын
This reminds me of Sejong the Great from Korea, who introduced the Hangul system to replace the overly complex borrowed Chinese characters.
@Alex Mercer no thanks we'd rather use Arabic letters lol
It isn't about complexity in this case - it is more to do with identify. Many other Turkic nations are using Latin Alphabets (Turkey is a fine example) and former some Soviet Turkic republics have already made the conversion.
@Alex Mercer you must be incredibly fuckin stupid if you think replacing Hangul with Latin would be a good idea. This just proves you don't know the basic foundations of the Korean language or linguistics at all. You just admitted to us that you're a dumbass, this stupid idea makes as much sense as switching English to the Thai script. Shut the fuck up about shit you don't understand.
@Alex Mercer Korean pronunciation is absolutely slaughtered when written in the Latin alphabet. Not to mention that the same word with the same pronunciation can be written in multiple ways in the Latin alphabet. This would make proper pronunciation impossible, especially for non-native Korean speakers. Some sounds represented by Hangul flat out don't exist in English. This is all around a terrible idea, and would be a terrible idea for most other languages. This idea of alphabets not of Latin origin being "redundant" is ridiculous and ignorant of how language actually works.
But it is not an accurate comparison. Chinese characters are logograms. Sejong replaced the logographic system with a featural alphabet, Hangul. Kazakhstan, on the other hand, replaced one alphabet with another alphabet.
finally something interesting about kazakhstan besides dimash kudaibergen xD
Kaba The Wolf ninety one
Lmaoooo
Every one under each video about Kazakh language or kazakhstan talks about Dimash but I've been vibing with qpop for a little while and didn't even know his existence....I thought Ninety One were more famous x)
Hey now. We are famous for our boxers as well. We have a lot of world champions in boxing
Besides borat to be sure
Wishing all the best for our Kazakh,Kyrgyz ,Tajek and Turkmen brothers . Bright minds came from that areas guided in advancing the world and added to our Islamic heritage.
A distant Syrian brother.
And btw great video( content and editing)👍thank you.
Assalayamu'aleikum
I am interested in Kazakhstan because of Dimash Kudaibergen.
He's long name Dinmukhamed Kudaibergenuly
Qudaibergen with the new alphabet 😉
Greetings from the equator
-12 July 2021
Is he that famous though?
@@saulgoodmanKAZAKH his vocals are literally flawless.
even if he made mistakes, he is still an unbelievably good singer.
This is bad, interesting country because someone famous people burned there. Dimash not only famous in Kazakstan, we have q pop, don't muddled with k pop. Sorry my English not good
Lots of new years?
Malaysia: hold my beer.
Malaysia has a normal 1/1 new year, Chinese new year, Islamic new year, and the Hindu new year holidays
What? Theres a hindu new year? o.o
Malaysia also got many² festival such as kaamatan, gawai, hari raya, Christmas and the list goes on.. As a person who got multiracial friends i got the chance to celebrate all this festival... 😂 the most important thing is FOOD
@@ayingchanda yes, and there are various
@@mohammadfaiezi3339 yep Muslim countries forced into multiculturalism
Malaysia shall be hold my teh tarik terbang because majority of them dont drink beer
The real genocide was the friends we made along the way.
South park? Tell me
"The real genocide was the friends we lost along the way" would make more sense
@Armageddon Sinew F
Zionists...
@Hoàng Nguyên wasn't Pol pot in Cambodia and wasn't the Vietnam War unrelated to that?
I learned a lot by watching this video . I have been sort of curious about Kazakhstan for a long time and this video really satisfied a lot of my curiosity.
At first I was thinking:“A Polymatter video that‘s not about Apple or China? Impossible.“
2:57
"And China" Really? I think Polymatter is Chinese
@@firefish111 *Hong Kong
Its hard to not include a country that is in everything.
Almaty is apple. So this video is both.
ES CM yeah right. From now on we will be dictated by this kind of localist political correctness, right?
"Humility! I like it! I, too, am extraordinarily humble."
dear author, thanks for this video. just some notes:
1) Latin alphabet seems to be changed as the second President, Tokayev, don't like the last version of it.
2) We still use Cyrillic Kazakh alphabet. The transmission is postponed...
3) our education system has had so many reforms since getting Independence, it's a nightmare. This transmission of alphabet is another next crazy reform
Why are you so against to it? Are you Russian Kazak or something?
@@talialee6364 a lot of people are against it because a new writing system is like learning a new language. Yes the Cyrillic might've been forced on, but it's a comfortable language, and useful to learn russian with. Pretty much nobody alive today remember anything before Cyrillic was a thing, so it'll be a while before we have fluent Latin Kazakh users
@@talialee6364 ...he is merely describing the situation as it stands now. Why the hostility?
Transmission of alphabet is bullshit imho. Why would u change alphabet to Latin one, if you have literally no connection to Latin people? Some arabic language would make more sense
@@benismann U.S. Agents at work : -)
The most brilliant statement of this piece: "The true fragility of an authoritarian government is never quite known" (until its downfall).
Haha, bro thanks for covering my country, wish more people made videos about it
Jhon Krasnovskiy dude chill, it’s just a video
@Jhon Krasnovskiy let's hope not
Nick F no worries bro
@@AJazzz damn bro you the chilliest person I've ever met online I wish I had a friend like you
I'm glad for this video too. Can you comment on how Geography Now has depicted your country?
Hey hey, Kazakh person here. Really liked your vid, and is true... A Lot of random events and a lot of high level players have been around KZ for a lot of its lifetime, yet despite its progress has been quit rapid, since it left ussr. Actually you are like one person, who made me quite proud about my country haha
Wonderful emir wonderful people there. I just posted my experiences above over two trips. I absolutely loved it. Warm friendly people and delicious food and beautiful women!! My only mistake was going once in January and I almost froze to death lol. I was there for work so no real choice but I hope to go back soon
My best friend is khazak. One of the best people I’ve ever interacted and related with in my life
@@randomdude1053 nice to hear my dude, usually people tell me that Kazakhs (Btw correcting your spelling) in other countries are very nice to interact with
compare speeds of developing of Poland and Kz, they both got their independence at almost the same time.
@@ЗакатРассвет-ы2ж do you mean, that Poland sky rocketed to not being third world country and we didn't? Well, Kazakhs are either lazy/rich, or very much from village/poor? I guess... While Poland is also in EU.... Soooo
We used to have latin alphabet in the past. My grandad had a signature in latin so he knew how to write it
Also, before joining Russian Empire Kazakh language was written in Latin alphabet, after joining it changed to Cyrillic. Many people have forgotten or don't even know that. You could still find very old kazakh books written in Latin.
Wrong. We didn't use Latin alphabet of Kazakh before joining Russian empire. We used Arabic writing system. When we were a part of Soviet Union we changed from Arabic to Latin script in 1929, but not for a long time. And in 1940 we started to use Cyrillic writing system.
@@Raptor35602 "...we changed from Arabic to Latin script in 1929...." That sounds like @Mill K is correct. A book from 1929 might be called very old by someone.
Actually I think @Mill K overstated his point, but his main point was correct.
2:27 Julian calendar wasn't used during Soviet Union. It was used during the Empire, but was abolished right after the October Revolution
Wow that's wild. I was lucky enough to get to visit Kazakhstan in 2016, on the way back to the US from Asia. It was definitely interesting, though I was in Almaty, not Astana (now Nur Sultan.) It's crazy to think how much this country is going to change in the few years since I saw it in person!
@@J04262
More like Kyrgyzstan is Kazakh Mexico and South Kazakhstan is Texas.
"old new year" is a left-over from the Soviet days ? Wow that's only one century wrong. Julian calendar was dropped at the very beginning of the Soviet era.
I've always been interested in this country. A really neat east meets west place. I need to visit someday
Lemme know when you’ll come 😉😅
The last time I was this early, the Kievan Rus just formed.
Are they Vikings?
Nitin Murthy I don’t think so said the Kievan Rus
@@rozafisheikh7968 ok, fair enough
@@NitinMurthy r/unexpectedbillwurtz
I did not expect the Kievan Rus thing from the history of the world i guess video here😂
1:48 You used an "L" where the "N" should be reeeeeee
finally someone comments about that, I was so triggered
@@gustavschnitzel loool I was triggered too
I'm impressed at the lack of Borat references. Very nice.
I was about to say!
Niiiiice.
Dayvit78 bahahahahah
I know right! I mean, it is the greatest country in the world and it’s prostitutes are the cleanest in the region.
JavierCR25 it seriously is not funny, it’s time to stop. you know Borat is a disgusting lie, so stop talking about it
The Vietnamese did it 150 years ago, in the 2nd half of 19th century. They adopted Latin alphabets to write and casted away Chinese writing systems which is very difficult to write and to memorize. This conversion significantly helped boost the literacy rate in the country. We don't even use "j, z, w".
And F?
@@hydrogen_neon
Correct.