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These shortcomings forced the Karakalpak Institute of Economics and Culture to develop a new alphabet and spelling rules for the Karakalpak language. In September 1954, a scientific and theoretical conference was held in Nukus, at which scientists from Karakalpakstan, Moscow, Tashkent and Frunze discussed the project of a new alphabet.
Language Alphabet Latin Cyrillic Perso-Arabic Altai language (south) Altai alphabets: ... Karakalpak language: Karakalpak alphabet: Official: Widely used: Historical
Before the Soviet Union, Karakalpak was rarely written, but when it was it used a modified form of the Perso-Arabic alphabet. Due to the geography and history of the Karakalpak people, Karakalpak has been influenced by Uzbek, Mongol, Tajik and Russian. A Karakalpak-Uzbek pidgin language is often spoken by those bilingual in both languages.
This same proposal was implemented for the Karakalpak language. Although Turkmenistan committed itself to adopt the original alphabet, it officially adopted a different proposal in 1993 with some unusual characters as letters such as the pound sign (£), the cent sign (¢) and the dollar sign ($).
Oe is used in the alphabets of the Bashkir, Buryat, Kalmyk, Karakalpak, Kazakh, Komi-Yazva, Kyrgyz, Mongolian, Sakha, Selkup, Tatar and Tuvan languages. In Turkic languages, it commonly represents the front rounded vowels / ø / or / œ /. In Kazakh and Karakalpak, it may also express / w ʉ /. In Mongolic languages, it usually represents / o ...
In the late 1930s, the process of translating the written languages of the USSR into a Cyrillic basis began, in 1940 an alphabet and spelling rules for the Karakalpak language were developed. The new alphabet was introduced by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the CCASSR on July 18, 1940, which established a deadline before ...
Uzbek language is the only official state language, [4] and since 1992 is officially written in the Latin alphabet, with heavy usage of the Cyrillic alphabet throughout the country. Karakalpak, is also a Turkic language, but it is closer to Kazakh.
Though 95% of Karakalpaks reside in Uzbekistan, [20] mostly in Karakalpakstan, the Karakalpak language is closer to Kazakh than to Uzbek. [21] The language was written in a modified Cyrillic in Soviet times and has been written in the Latin alphabet since 1996.