I call that more isolationism: If I can uncerstand the political reasons for not looking like Turkish, why then do they use the dotless i in this last version (not distinguished however from the dotted i in capital) ? This is not just a transliteration, this is also a proposal to do at the same time an simplification of the orthography by reducing the alphabet.
They'll have the troubles with people's names and new cases of homonymies, causing adminsitrative difficulties for these people... When other countries are now going to the inverse direction (accepting to extend their alphabet by adding more letters or distinguishing variants, and then treat ortrhographic simplifications not globally but on selected lists of terms studied by their local linguistic authorities, and otherwise allowing or demanding simplifications only on selected applications), here it is the reverse: create an alphabet that will not look like Turkish, not like Russian, not like other Eastern European languages, and also not like their own national language, clearing a singificant part of its history. All the difficulties coming at the same time and that will cost them a lot, because there's no place at all for transition and adaptation ! 2018-02-21 2:19 GMT+01:00 Michael Everson via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org>: > Stalin would be very pleased. Divide and conquer. > > > On 21 Feb 2018, at 01:15, Garth Wallace via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> > wrote: > > > > AIUI "doesn't look like Turkish" was one of the design criteria, for > political reasons. > > > > On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 1:07 PM Michael Everson via Unicode < > unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > > Not using Turkic letters is daft, particularly as there was a > widely-used transliteration in Kazakhstan anyway. And even if not Ç Ş, they > could have used Ć and Ś. > > > > There’s no value in using diagraphs in Kazakh particularly when there > could be a one-to-one relation with the Cyrillic orthography, and I bet you > anything there will be ambiguity where some morpheme ends in -s and the > next begins with h- where you have [sx] and not [ʃ]. > > > > Groan. > > > > > On 20 Feb 2018, at 20:40, Christoph Päper <christoph.pae...@crissov.de> > wrote: > > > > > > Michael Everson: > > >> Why on earth would they use Ch and Sh when 1) C isn’t used by itself > and 2) if you’re using Ǵǵ you may as well use Çç Şş. > > > > > > I would have argued in favor of digraphs for G' and N' as well if > there already was a decision for Ch and Sh. > > > > > > Many European orthographies use the digraph Qu although the letter Q > does not occur otherwise. > > > > > > >
