abjads - 2025 ACF Winter - Buzzpoints App

Question

Answer the following about changes made to the Kazakh alphabet in the past century, for 10 points each.

[10m] Kazakh had first used an Arabic alphabet with added vowels, making it [emphasize] unlike this kind of writing system in which only consonants are represented. Semitic languages like Hebrew and Syriac now use “impure” systems of this kind.

ANSWER: abjads [or abgads; accept impure abjad]

[10e] Until a 2017 decree to switch to the Latin alphabet, Kazakh used this script also used by Ukrainian and Russian.

ANSWER: Cyrillic [or the Cyrillic alphabet; or Cyrillic script]

[10h] The letter N with tilde unusually represents a velar in the 2021 Kazakh Latin alphabet, whereas in Spanish it represents a voiced consonant that has this place of articulation and manner of articulation. Name both.

ANSWER: voiced palatal nasal [accept answers in either order]

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California	Main	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
Canada	Main	Y	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	6	11.67	100%	0%	17%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	7	17.14	100%	57%	14%
Midwest	Main	Y	10	13.00	100%	30%	0%
North	Main	Y	10	20.00	100%	60%	40%
Northeast	Main	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	9	14.44	100%	44%	0%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
South Central	Main	Y	5	16.00	100%	40%	20%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	15.83	100%	42%	17%
UK	Main	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	8	15.00	100%	38%	13%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	8	11.25	100%	13%	0%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	11	19.09	100%	64%	27%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%

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Berkeley D	Berkeley A	0	10	0	10
Berkeley F	Berkeley C	10	10	0	20
Berkeley B	Stanford A	0	10	0	10
Stanford B	UCSC	0	10	0	10
Berkeley E	Stanford C	10	10	0	20
UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms	Claremont Scripps	0	10	0	10
UCLA D	UCI	0	10	0	10
UCLA A	UCSB	10	10	0	20
UCLA B	UCSD Vices and Virtues	0	10	0	10
UCSD What Hath God Wrought	UCLA C	10	10	0	20
USC	Claremont Pitzer	0	10	0	10
ERAU B	UF B	0	10	0	10
FIU	Melbourne A	0	10	10	20
Melbourne B	UF E	0	10	0	10
UF D	FSU	0	10	0	10
USF	UF A	0	10	0	10
UF C	ERAU A	0	10	0	10
CWRU A	MSU A	10	10	10	30
OSU D	CWRU B	0	10	0	10
CWRU C	Kenyon A	10	10	0	20
Kenyon B	CWRU D	0	10	0	10
OSU B	MSU B	0	10	0	10
OSU A	OSU C	10	10	0	20
Pitt C	Pitt B	10	10	0	20
Tennessee A	Clemson B	10	10	0	20
Liberty A	Tennessee B	0	10	0	10
Liberty C	North Carolina C	0	10	0	10
North Carolina B	James Madison	0	10	0	10
Virginia B	Roanoke	0	10	0	10
North Carolina A	South Carolina B	0	10	0	10
South Carolina A	Tusculum	0	10	0	10
Virginia A	NC State	10	10	0	20
Clemson A	Virginia Tech A	10	10	0	20
Virginia Tech B	Liberty B	0	10	0	10
George Mason B	Georgetown A	0	10	0	10
Maryland C	Georgetown B	10	10	0	20
George Washington A	Johns Hopkins C	0	10	0	10
Maryland B	Penn A	0	10	0	10
NYU A	Catholic University	10	10	10	30
NYU B	George Washington B	0	10	0	10
Johns Hopkins A	Notre Dame E	10	10	10	30
Maryland D	Penn B	10	10	0	20
UMBC A	VCU A	10	10	10	30
Columbia A	Princeton A	10	10	0	20
Columbia C	Swarthmore A	0	10	0	10
Lehigh A	Vassar A	10	10	0	20
Rowan A	Lehigh B	0	10	0	10
Columbia B	Rutgers B	10	10	10	30
Maryland A	George Mason C	10	10	10	30
Michigan A	Chicago D	10	10	0	20
Indiana A	Purdue C	10	10	0	20
Illinois A	Indiana B	0	10	0	10
Chicago A	Michigan D	0	10	0	10
UIC	Notre Dame B	10	10	0	20
Notre Dame D	Kentucky	0	10	0	10
Purdue A	Illinois B	0	10	0	10
Notre Dame A	Purdue B	10	10	0	20
Notre Dame C	Chicago C	0	10	0	10
Michigan B	Louisville B	0	10	0	10
Carleton	Minnesota C	10	10	0	20
Minnesota A	Macalester A	0	10	10	20
Macalester B	Iowa State	10	10	0	20
Nebraska	St. Thomas	0	10	0	10
Minnesota B	Wisconsin	0	10	0	10
Brown A	BC A	10	10	0	20
Brandeis Lloyd George	BC B	0	10	0	10
Cornell-UG	Bowdoin B	0	10	0	10
Yale A	Brandeis Clemenceau	10	10	10	30
Amherst A	Brown C	0	10	0	10
Brown B	MIT A	0	10	0	10
MIT B	Dartmouth	0	10	0	10
Tufts A	Amherst B	10	10	10	30
Brandeis Wilson	Tufts B	10	10	0	20
Williams	Bowdoin A	10	10	0	20
Harvard	Yale B	0	10	0	10
British Columbia A	Washington B	0	10	0	10
British Columbia D	Washington A	10	10	0	20
Simon Fraser	British Columbia C	0	10	0	10
Alberta	British Columbia B	10	10	0	20
Brandeis Orlando	BU	0	10	0	10
Alberta B	UTD A	10	10	10	30
Northwestern A	Arizona State B	10	10	0	20
Ohio	Tulsa	0	10	0	10
Iowa	Rose State	0	10	0	10
Texas A	McGill D	0	10	0	10
Texas B	Northwestern C	0	10	0	10
UCO	UTD B	0	10	0	10
Arizona State A	Northwestern B	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech A	Alabama A	0	10	0	10
Auburn A	Georgia Tech B	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech C	Alabama B	10	10	0	20
Vanderbilt A	Huntsville A	0	10	0	10
Bruin A	Huntsville B	0	10	0	10
Sewanee A	Mississippi State A	0	10	0	10
Auburn B	UAB A	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech D	Vanderbilt B	0	10	0	10
Birmingham A	Sheffield B	0	10	0	10
Cambridge B	Imperial A	10	10	10	30
LSE A	Cambridge C	10	10	0	20
Durham B	Sheffield C	0	10	0	10
Edinburgh B	Warwick B	10	10	0	20
Edinburgh A	Imperial B	10	10	0	20
LSE B	Bristol A	0	10	0	10
Lancaster A	Bristol B	0	10	0	10
Manchester A	Southampton A	10	10	0	20
Cambridge A	Manchester B	10	10	10	30
Oxford A	Imperial C	10	10	10	30
ESF	Cornell-DII	0	10	0	10
RIT A	Rochester	10	10	0	20
RIT B	Binghamton B	10	10	0	20
Syracuse	Binghamton A	0	10	0	10