How to Pronounce Akhmet Baitursynov
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Jan 28, 1872 Turgay Oblast Died on 08 Dec 1937 (aged 65)
Kazakh intellectual
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About Akhmet Baitursynov
- Akhmet Baitursynov (Kazakh: Ahmet Baitursynuly; Russified: Akhmet Baitursynov) (28 January 1872 — 8 December 1937) was a Kazakh intellectual who worked in the fields of politic, poetry, linguistics and education. Baitursynov reformed the Kazakh language from the Arabic script to Latin, giving the opportunity for millions of Kazakhs living abroad to use it.
- In 1912, he excluded all the purely Arabic letters not used in the Kazakh language and added letters specific to the Kazakh language.
- The new alphabet, named Jana Emle (meaning New Spelling), is still used by Kazakhs living in China, Afghanistan, and in Iran.
- Baitursynov also developed the basics of Kazakh and the scientific terminology for the definition of Kazakh grammar.
- In 1937, he was executed by a firing squad during the Great Purge.
