Kyrgyz parliament approved the new edition of orthography on 26th June, and Kyrgyzstan, starting from today, begins to work on new rules of spelling.

The Kyrgyz language’s orthography was changed in 2002 for the last time, when it was decided to write the names of regions in one word – Issykkul, Jalalabad, Karakol.

Specially set up commission, consisting of 12 philologists, worked out the orthography’s new edition within a month, taking into account all pluses and minuses of previous versions.

The new orthography is similar to 1953, when place-names wrote separately – Kochkor-Ata, Kara-Suu, Cholpon-Ata. The national commission for state language is also expected to issue orthographic dictionary, consisting of 80-52 thousand words and word-combinations, in the future an electronic version.