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    Now I Get It: Why is Kazakhstan changing its alphabet?

    Yahoo News Video•January 17, 2018

    President Trump met with Kazakhstan’s president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, on Tuesday to discuss economic partnerships. But perhaps the bigger headline about the former Soviet Republic is that it is changing its alphabet from a Cyrillic Russian-based alphabet to a Latin-based one. So why the change and how long will it take?