FROM THE HISTORY OF THE FORMATION OF THE NEW KAZAKH WRITTEN LITERARY LANGUAGE

Abstract

In the second half of the ХІХ century, due to progressive transformations in Kazakh society (opening of Russian-Kazakh schools, publishing books and newspapers in the Kazakh language), there was a need to create a new written literary language instead of the existing written language, clogged with numerous borrowings from other languages and grammatical forms from the Chagatai language. This mission was undertaken by the great enlighteners I. Altynsarin and A. Kunanbayev, who laid the foundation for the new written literary language in their works. This foundation continued to be developed by their followers. Giving additional facts, the author traces this process in the article.