Latin-based Kazakh alphabet be outlined by end of 2017

Latin-based Kazakh alphabet will be outlined by the end of this year, Kazakh Minister of Education and Science Erlan Saghadiev said.

The minister noted that a special commission was working on creating "the most appropriate" variant of the Latin-based alphabet for the Kazakh language, Kazinform reported,

Saghadiev said over 500 classes in schools across the country will be taught in English from September.

The county's President Nursultan Nazarbaev has ordered that all publications, documents, and street signs switch from Cyrillic to Latin by 2025.