Tag: trilingualism

Kazakhstan at Risk of Ukraine’s Fate if Kazakhs Push Their Language Too Hard, Nazarbayev Warns

August 26, 2014

Staunton, August 26 – If Kazakhs demand that their national language takes precedence over all others in all situations in that Central Asian country, Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev warned in a television interview this week, they risk seeing their country suffer as Ukraine now is. If Kazakhstan were to “ban all languages except Kazakh,” he said, […]