Language policy in karakalpakstan (1917–1941)
Abstract
AbstractBased on new archival sources and published literature, the article covers an excursion on the transition to romanization in 1926–1940 in Karakalpakstan, shows the reasons and consequences of the reform of the Karakalpak language writing. The most important task of national-autonomous construction was the adaptation of the bodies of the created state power and their apparatus to local national conditions. To solve it, it was necessary in a short time to translate the office work into the national language and involve representatives of the “indigenous” nationality in the apparatus. If in the 1927/1928 academic year in all indigenous schools teaching was carried out in two alphabets, then in the 1928/1929 academic year it was completely conducted in the new alphabet.