KZBlog

I was amused that the mistake in the new tenge had made the Reuters’ Oddly Enough.

However, they actually bring up a good point about the politics of language:

“The mistake … is not just a spelling problem — it has political undertones,” a letter from members of parliament to President Nursultan Nazarbayev said.
“We urge you to tell the National Bank not to put out the notes with a mistake in the Kazakh language.”
Language is a contentious issue in Kazakhstan.
Kazakhs were encouraged to speak Russian, which is written in Cyrillic script, during Soviet times but since independence in 1991, the country has seen the Kazakh language as a national symbol.