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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