The president of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev signed the Decree "On Approval of the Design of National Currency Banknotes and Coin Designs" and it is said in the decree that inscription of tenge should be only in the state language.
Writing in a foreign language can be only in the design of investment and collection coins.
In addition, it should be noted that at present, there are Russian inscription in addition to Kazakh in the tenge. The Constitution of Kazakhstan states that the Russian language is used in the state bodies and local self-government bodies with the Kazakh language. And only Kazakh language is the state language in the country.