Education and Innovation in IT
16 min
The Kazakh language is not dying from Russian. It is dying from Python.
He designs distributed systems with 20 microservices, but cannot wish his grandmother good health in her language. Society labels him a "mangurt." Neurolinguistics explains: the brain optimizes for the language it operates in for 12 hours a day. Kazakh doesn't lose to Russian. It loses to English, Python, and Kubernetes. And shame is not the remedy here.