But probably you meant that the enforced Cyrillic script does holds back Central Asian languages from developing? Then I agree. To have a position and to develop further, the Central Asian languages should link up with a wider and related language sphere: for Kazakh, Kyrgyz, … this is Turkish and hence the modified Latin script, for Tajik-Farsi it is the wider Persian sphere including the modfied Arabic alphabet. Russian, for its part, will always continue to play an important economic and social role. This was discussed on another thread with Botir Kasimi and Max Kalinskii.

@Mirsulcan, reg. “yet, a great deal of our work conversations take place in English. Moreover, many of our bloggers actively desire to write in English because it attracts a much larger international audience.”

Basing ones analysis of society on what is written on blogs can be tricky I think. First of all, the audience using the internet in the region is limited especially as compared to mobile phones and sat TV. Second, it mostly consists of urban and more westrenised groups of society who do not represent wider or ‘real’ society if I may say.

The first publications that I saw in Latin Kazakh were from Turkey. I still have a copy from 1996 of the Kazakhs version of the Eurasian Studies Journal (which was published by the Turkish International Cooperation Agency) written in the same modified Latin.