Abstract
The Kyrgyz sector of the Internet relies both on Russian and Kyrgyz. The research objective was to identify the roles of Russian and Kyrgyz in the Kyrgyz Internet space, including social networks. Although the Russian language remains the main meta-language of digital communication support in Kyrgyzstan, it serves as an engine of promoting Kyrgyz as a state language. The study revealed the major problem in the use of the Kyrgyz language in the digital space: it simply has no linguistic resources to describe this sphere of life. Most Kyrgyz citizens are bilingual, and they prefer to use Russian in the sphere of social services and social networks due to the weak development and poor implementation of digital Kyrgyz-language platforms. The state is currently trying to introduce Kyrgyz into various digital products. These imperative measures take into account neither the actual needs of Kyrgyz citizens nor the actual potential of the state language. The best practice belongs to the countries that choose not to put an unbearable burden on their own languages in certain social spheres and turn to those that are more effective for this or that particular purpose of social communication.
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