Event dedicated to the 150th anniversary of Akhmet Baitursynuly

In the Ministry of Trade and Integration of the Republic of Kazakhstan on September 6 this year in ZOOM mode in accordance with the Decree of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan No. 689 dated October 31, 2017 and Presidential Decree No. 624 dated July 19, 2021 "On approval of the list of public holidays in the Republic of Kazakhstan" as part of the action plan for the celebration of the 150th anniversary of Akhmet Baitursynuly a lecture by kazaktyn Akhany was held.

This event is organized on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Akhmet Baitursynuly - a national teacher, the founder of linguistics, a figure of Alash.

The lecture consisted of such sections as "Life milestones", "Political path", "Alash and Akhmet", "Creativity", "The Kazakh language and the new alphabet", "The last years of life", where it was said how A. Baitursynuly, without sparing his life, served the Kazakh people.

"In 1911-1912, the alphabet of Akhmet Baitursynuly, published in the printing houses of the cities of Ufa and Orynbor, was reprinted 7 times under the title "Textbook" and was widely used in teaching for a long time. In 1926, the scientist wrote a new type of textbook "Alip-bi" (ABC).

At that time, his famous textbook "Til – kural" (Language manual) was written, consisting of three parts, published in three small books.

Another wonderful work of Ahmet is the creation of terms. In addition, the scientist proposed a Kazakh name for each of the categories related to the grammar of the Kazakh language.

All the various linguistic names used today, such as noun, adjective, verb, pronoun, adverb, subject, predicate, simple sentence, complex sentence, address, are the legacy of the scientist," M. Dosova said about Baytursinula's activities in the field of language.

"Akhmet Baitursynuly is a unique person who is born once a century, devoted his entire adult life to the pursuit of freedom and enlightenment of the Kazakh people, for which the people nicknamed him "kazaktyn Akhany", G. Mashyrapova concluded her speech.

87 employees of the Ministry, committees and territorial administrations took part in the event.