The kazakh language should become the language of science

A well-known linguist, vice-president for science of the International society "Kazakh Tili" Sherubai Kurmanbayuly delivered a leadership lecture "Modern turkic terminology: directions of development, interlanguage relations" at the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University.

Opening the event, Chairman of the Board – Rector of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University Zhanseit Tuimebayev congratulated the scientist on his 60th birthday and noted: "You are an experienced correspondent scientist who has made a significant contribution to the development of linguistics. Having graduated with honors from the Faculty of Philology of KazNU, you followed the path of great science. You have honorably held various responsible positions, conducted fundamental research in the field of linguistics and made a great contribution to expanding the scope of the kazakh language. You have educated your followers and created your own scientific school".

In turn, professor Sherubai Kurmanbayuly gave a lecture to the audience. "One of the main problems of modern turkology is the terminology of modern turkic peoples. In the age of science and technology, the role of professional language has increased in strengthening cooperation and relations in such fields as education, science, culture, art, politics and economics. In cross-country relations, his need came out on top. This is because now is the age of science and technology. As long as the language of the nation is not the language of technology and science, it is very difficult for it to be in demand. Thus, english is being studied by the peoples of the world, it has become the language of science and education. From 70 to 80 percent of scientific information is stored in this language. At the same time, the question arises, how will we raise the Kazakh language to this level? This is not only a question of today, literally a century ago, kazakh readers led by A.Baitursynov gathered in Orenburg in 1924 and designated kazakh terminology as a scientific guideline for the development of the language of science", - Sherubai Kurmanbayuly said. In his lecture, he told the audience about interlanguage communication, stylistic branches of the language and the directions of development of modern turkic terminology.

Press-service of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University