On 10 November 2026, by decree of President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Kyzdarkhan Rysbergen (Қыздархан Құрмашқызы Рысберген), Doctor of Philology and Chief Researcher at the A. Baitursynuly Institute of Linguistics in Almaty, was awarded Kazakhstan’s Order of Qurmet (Құрмет).
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| Ақорданың баспасөз қызметінің суреті |
The decree itself does not provide a separate citation explaining why each individual recipient was honoured. It would therefore be incorrect to claim that Rysbergen was formally decorated “for onomastics” or for any single publication. The broader legal definition of the Order of Qurmet, however, explicitly includes merits in the development of science, culture and education, alongside contributions to the economy, social sphere, public service and civic activity. What follows is consequently not an attempt to invent an official motivation for the award, but a scholarly reading of the body of work against which this recognition can be understood.
For onomasticians, there is a particularly compelling reason to do so. Rysbergen’s career can be read almost as a condensed history of the transformation of Kazakh onomastics over the last four decades: from regional historical toponymy to linguocognitive interpretation; from printed dictionaries to national standardisation; from the card catalogue to the corpus; and, most recently, from normative recommendations to empirical testing against digital maps and public name usage.
That continuity is perhaps her most important achievement.
Entering onomastics in the age of the card index
Kyzdarkhan Rysbergen was born on
13 April 1957. She graduated with honours from the Faculty of Philology of Shymkent Pedagogical Institute in 1981, spent 1981–1983 as a research trainee at the Institute of Linguistics, and joined its Department of Onomastics in 1984. She later served as Academic Secretary of the Institute from 1996 to 2004 and was appointed Head of the Department of Onomastics in 2002. Today, the National Corpus of the Kazakh Language lists her as a Doctor of Philology and Chief Researcher of the Department.
The historical moment at which she entered the field is worth recalling. Between 1981 and 1986, the Department of Onomastics was carrying out a major programme of systematic collection. According to the Institute’s institutional history, its researchers accumulated approximately 130,000 items of onomastic material during those five years, establishing the basis of the Kazakh onomastic card index. These were not Rysbergen’s personal 130,000 records, and the distinction matters; rather, this was the scholarly infrastructure into which the young researcher entered.
Four decades later, Rysbergen is listed among the developers of an
Onomastic Subcorpus containing nearly
3,000 onyms embedded in a textual database of approximately
15 million word tokens. The figures are not directly comparable: one measures card-index materials, the other onym entries and textual evidence. Historically, however, the contrast is striking. Her professional life has stretched from an era in which names were accumulated on cards to one in which they can be searched together with metadata, textual contexts, geographical information and cultural-semantic annotation.
South Kazakhstan: the historical foundations
Rysbergen’s first major field was
historical toponymy. Her Candidate of Sciences dissertation, defended in 1993 under the supervision of Telgozha Zhanuzakov, was entitled
Историко-лингвистический анализ топонимов Южно-Казахстанской области (на материале западных районов) [Historical-Linguistic Analysis of the Toponyms of the South Kazakhstan Region, Based on Its Western Districts]. The surviving author’s abstract confirms both the subject and the explicitly historical-linguistic orientation of the study.
The work matured into the 2000 monograph Историко-лингвистическое исследование топонимов Южного Казахстана [Historical-Linguistic Study of the Toponyms of Southern Kazakhstan]. It belongs to a foundational tradition of Kazakh toponymic scholarship in which the place name is simultaneously a linguistic form, a historical record and an indicator of human interaction with geographical space.
This was not merely the study of attractive etymologies. Historical toponymy requires the researcher to reconstruct layers: indigenous geographical terminology, settlement history, migration, phonological adaptation, the coexistence of Turkic and other naming strata, and the changing documentary representation of names. Rysbergen’s early work established precisely this historical sensitivity to the name as a piece of evidence.
It is significant that she has never really left this first intellectual home.
More than thirty years after the dissertation, Rysbergen led the 2022–2024 research project
AP14872289, “Linguoculturological Study of Historical Toponyms of the Northern and North-Eastern Regions of Kazakhstan in the Context of National Statehood.” The project returned to historical documentary material, including old cartographic and administrative sources, but with a twenty-first-century objective: systematic digital preservation and corpus integration. A major outcome of this return to historical toponymy was the substantial 544-page monograph
Қазақстанның солтүстік, солтүстік-шығыс аймақтарының дәстүрлі топонимдік ландшафты және крестьяндық отарлау факторы (XIX ғасырдың екінші жартысы – 1917 ж.) [
The Traditional Toponymic Landscape of Northern and Northeastern Kazakhstan and the Factor of Peasant Colonization (Second Half of the Nineteenth Century–1917): A Linguo-Historical Study], published in Almaty in 2024 by Kyzdarkhan Rysbergen, Nursan Alimbay, Nurgeldi Uali and B. K. Smagulov.
It examines the historical toponymic landscape of northern and northeastern Kazakhstan in relation to the peasant colonization of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its importance lies in bringing linguistic evidence into direct dialogue with historical and ethnographic sources: traditional place names, personal names and clan names are treated as witnesses to older patterns of settlement, territorial continuity and cultural memory, while the replacement and transformation of names are analysed as part of the profound demographic and political changes accompanying colonization. In this respect, the monograph represents one of the most substantial late syntheses of Rysbergen’s original research field, returning to historical toponymy more than three decades after her first dissertation but now on a much broader geographical, documentary and interdisciplinary scale.
From the origin of a name to the knowledge inside a name
The decisive theoretical expansion in Rysbergen’s scholarship came with the
cognitive turn.
The Department’s 2006–2008 fundamental research programme was explicitly devoted to the “cognitive foundations of Kazakh national toponymy”; this line was followed by projects on the representation of the national idea in the Kazakh onomastic system and on Kazakh proper names in ethnocultural and linguistic-historical paradigms.
Rysbergen defended her doctoral dissertation on the linguocognitive foundations of Kazakh toponymy in 2010. Its larger synthesis appeared in 2011 as the 328-page monograph Ұлттық ономастиканың лингвокогнитивтік негіздері [Linguocognitive Foundations of National Onomastics]. This book is arguably the theoretical centre of her published work. It represents a shift from asking primarily “Where does this name come from?” to the broader question “What kind of knowledge about the world made this name possible?”
That change is fundamental. The etymological form of a toponym is only one layer. A place name may encode how a community distinguishes surface water from underground water, useful pasture from poor pasture, exposed land from shelter, vegetation suitable for particular livestock, sacred terrain from ordinary space, or an orientation point visible across an apparently featureless steppe. In such a model, toponymy becomes a form of accumulated environmental and cultural knowledge.
This conceptual line has matured rather than disappeared. In the 2024 Open Linguistics article written with Nurgeldy Uali, Anar Fazylzhanova and Kuralay Kuderinova, Rysbergen distinguishes between rational and irrational knowledge objectified in Kazakh toponyms. Rational knowledge includes empirical information derived from practical nomadic engagement with relief, water, pasture, vegetation and economic life; irrational knowledge includes mythology, animistic and religious ideas, beliefs, values, taboos and inherited symbolic associations.
The authors make an explicit novelty claim: for the first time within their proposed framework, Kazakh ethnoecological and ethnobotanical knowledge is represented through the “language matrix” of toponyms, with the analytical emphasis shifted from lexical form toward cultural semantics.
This is an important formulation of what Rysbergen’s cognitive onomastics has been attempting for years. A name such as Aqsu, Qarasū, Qarağash, Almaly or Shieli is not exhausted when its lexical components have been translated. The name preserves a local theory of landscape.
Seen from this perspective, onomastics becomes a form of intellectual archaeology.
Building the national onomastic infrastructure
Yet Rysbergen’s contribution cannot be adequately described through theory alone. A striking feature of her career is the repeated conversion of research into
infrastructure: dictionaries, instructions, inventories, spelling norms, standardisation principles and digital resources.
The Institute records her participation in preparation of the instruction regulating the Russian rendering of Kazakh geographical names and the Kazakh rendering of Russian geographical names - bibliographic records give a 2002 edition, while the institutional biography refers to the work as part of her 2003 activities - as well as in drafting the 2004 Concept of Onomastic Work in the Republic of Kazakhstan. She also served on the Almaty municipal onomastic commission and on the Terminological Working Group concerned with the transition of Kazakh to Latin script.
The 2004 book written with her mentor Telgozha Zhanuzakov,
Қазақ ономастикасы: жетістіктері мен болашағы [Kazakh Onomastics: Achievements and Future], is especially revealing. Rather than another regional name dictionary, it surveys Kazakh onomastic research conducted since 1950, evaluates its achievements and formulates directions for future work. It is simultaneously historiography, methodology and programme.
This field-building impulse found a particularly substantial material expression in the 2017 reference work Қазақстан Республикасы. Әкімшілік-аумақтық бірліктер атаулары [Republic of Kazakhstan: Names of Administrative-Territorial Units]. Rysbergen was not only a co-compiler and member of the editorial board but is explicitly identified as the project’s organisational leader. The 604-page volume contains approximately 19,000 names of administrative-territorial units and other objects, presenting their standard Kazakh and Russian forms.
Nineteen thousand names is not simply a large dataset. Each normalized pair potentially prevents divergence between administrative documents, maps, educational materials, databases, media usage and public signage. The importance of such work becomes clearer when placed in the larger history of Kazakh name standardisation. A 2009 national geographical-name reference book described the effort to provide frequently used names in consistent Kazakh, Russian and English forms as an initial attempt at such comprehensive harmonisation. By 2017 the administrative inventory had grown into an approximately 19,000-name normative resource.
The trajectory leads directly to Rysbergen and colleagues’ 2022 study on the foundations of standardisation in onomastic activity in the Republic of Kazakhstan, where spelling variation is no longer treated merely as an editorial inconvenience. In a state moving between scripts and operating simultaneously in national and international information environments, name standardisation becomes a question of interoperability.
This is where apparently traditional lexicography becomes unexpectedly modern.
Latinisation: when every proper name becomes a test case
Kazakhstan’s planned transition of Kazakh from Cyrillic to Latin script brought Rysbergen’s long-standing work on normative naming into a new domain. The Institute’s research programme documents a sequence of specialised tasks from 2017 onward: preparation concerning anthroponyms, rules for transliterating Kazakh personal names, parallel Cyrillic/Latin reference works for administrative-territorial and physical-geographical names, and work on foreign geographical names and other foreign-language onyms.
Rysbergen’s 2018 paper Ономастикалық атауларды латын әліпбиінде жазудың теориялық мәселелері [Theoretical Issues in Writing Onomastic Names in the Latin Alphabet] already treats transliteration, transcription and translation as distinct problems and draws attention to the particular difficulties presented by personal and geographical names.
In 2021, with İbrahim Şahin, she turned specifically to foreign geographical names, arguing that developing principles for their representation in a Latin-based Kazakh orthography was an essential component of the language reform. The paper is notable for looking beyond Kazakhstan’s endonyms: script reform also has to decide how Kazakh will write the rest of the world.
This line became increasingly comparative and international. In 2025, From Foreign to Familiar: Transliteration Challenges in the Latinization of Kazakh Exonyms examined phonological, orthographic and sociolinguistic problems of adapting foreign geographical names. The empirical material included a world-map inventory of 3,472 geographical names - 203 country names, 2,172 city and settlement names, 392 hydrographic names and 705 orographic names. Within a 1,269-name cross-country subset used to examine semantic adaptation, only 97 names, or 7.6%, were reported as semantically adapted into Kazakh, illustrating the continuing strength of Russian-mediated exonymic forms.
Also in 2025, Rysbergen and Eugen Schochenmaier compared the treatment of proper names across script reforms in Turkey, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Romania, Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, shifting the discussion from “which alphabet?” toward the more complex questions of institutional continuity, name standardisation, dual-script practice and digital usability.
In 2026 the investigation moved further. From Cyrillic to Latin: A Step Toward Phonemic Precision in Kazakh, co-authored with Didar Sadyk, Eugen Schochenmaier and Zeinep Bazarbayeva, formalised a phoneme-to-grapheme correspondence model and compared the 2021 Latin design with the current Cyrillic orthography. Here, orthographic reform was subjected to an explicitly replicable measurement framework rather than evaluated by impression alone.
The 2026 Acta Onomastica article by Dana Pashan, Kyzdarkhan Rysbergen and Eugen Schochenmaier widened the comparison again, reviewing exonymisation across five major script families and translating that typology into a structured research agenda for Kazakhstan.
What began decades earlier as the question of how to spell and standardise a geographical name had become an international problem of scripts, exonyms, databases and digital infrastructures.
Almaty: from mountains and rivers to restaurants and residential complexes
Another revealing transformation in Rysbergen’s research is spatial. The young researcher studied historical place names in Southern Kazakhstan. The mature researcher also studies
the rapidly manufactured names of the modern metropolis. A grant-supported project on the urbanonymic system of Almaty placed street names, commercial names, residential-complex names and the multilingual linguistic landscape within the same broad onomastic field. The project was formally approved with Rysbergen as project leader.
A 2021 study of Almaty’s onomastic space examined a database of 1,424 ergonymic units, analysing the interaction of Kazakh, Russian and English under conditions of globalisation. A separate study of the city’s hodonymic system considered more than 2,000 street-related names.
The 2024 article Problems of Commercialisation and Commercial Nomination of the Urbanonymic Landscape of Almaty brings this line of research into particularly sharp focus. The study reports an empirical base of around 2,000 oikodomonyms and ergonyms, including 467 names of residential complexes and 1,424 ergonymic units. It also records 2,267 street, square and alley names, of which 1,036 - 45% - are memorial names referring to historical personalities and figures of culture, literature and science. These numbers matter because the problem has changed. Traditional toponymy asks how a community inherited names. Commercial urbanonymy asks how names are produced, packaged and sold.
The 2024 study therefore treats the urban name partly as a commodity: a tool of branding, status projection and market positioning. The linguistic landscape of Almaty reveals not merely three languages coexisting, but competing symbolic economies of prestige, globality, locality and identity. The subsequent 2026 study of branding and image in the formation of Almaty’s urbanonymic space continues this transition toward critical and sociolinguistic onomastics. There is a pleasing symmetry here. The same scholar who once reconstructed historical motivations embedded in old place names now investigates motivations deliberately engineered by contemporary naming agencies and property developers.
From the dictionary to the corpus
If standardisation is one of the principal applied strands of Rysbergen’s work, the
Onomastic Subcorpus of the National Corpus of the Kazakh Language is perhaps its clearest digital continuation.
The first methodological work on the subcorpus described the collection of toponyms from Akmola and Almaty regions as a starting point and envisaged a multifunctional resource capable of representing Kazakhstan’s onomastic stock both synchronically and retrospectively.
The current resource defines its task broadly: to collect and systematise toponyms, anthroponyms and other onyms; to provide geographic, cultural-semantic and word-formation annotation; to record changes in geographical names; and to make their textual occurrence and frequency searchable. It presently reports nearly 3,000 onyms and approximately 15 million word tokens in its textual base. Rysbergen is named among its developers.
The conceptual significance goes beyond digitisation. A printed dictionary normally gives the researcher one carefully selected form and a finite explanation. A corpus can preserve variation, chronology, context and frequency. It can connect the normative name with the name as actually used.
This makes possible a new kind of onomastics: not only What should the name be? and What did the name mean?, but also Where is this form used? How often? In which period? Alongside which variants?
Rysbergen’s scholarship has thus moved through three increasingly complex representations of the proper name:
the name as an entry in a card index;
the name as an entry in a dictionary;
the name as a node in a searchable digital system.
From standard to evidence: the 2026 audit
The newest stage may prove the most consequential precisely because it subjects earlier normative work to empirical verification. On
3 November 2026, exactly one week before the presidential decree awarding Rysbergen the Order of Qurmet,
Language Problems and Language Planning published online
From Law to Label: Evaluating Kazakhstan’s Toponymic Standardization in Practice, by Eugen Schochenmaier, Kyzdarkhan Rysbergen, Kuralay Kuderinova and Dana Pashan.
The study asks a question that earlier generations of standardisation work could rarely answer quantitatively: Do officially standardised names actually coincide with the names encountered on a major public digital map? The audit compared 17,846 deduplicated settlement entries from the State Catalogue with OpenStreetMap populated-place features. A broad linkage model identified 6,439 linked OSM features. Of the 5,104 linked features carrying a Kazakh name:kk label, 2,899 - 56.8% - matched the State Catalogue exactly. These statistics do not imply that the remaining cases are all erroneous; linkage, missing tags, legitimate variation and different update cycles complicate such a simple interpretation. But methodologically the change is important.
The history has moved: from proposing standards → to compiling standards → to digitising standards → to measuring their implementation. That is an unusually coherent arc across a scholarly career.
Recognition - and an approaching anniversary
The Order of Qurmet is the most prominent in a longer sequence of professional recognition. The National Centre records the
Ybyrai Altynsarin badge (2006), the badge
“For Merits in the Development of Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan” (2018) and the distinction
“For Merits in the Development of the Mother Tongue” (2022).
There is also an appropriate anniversary immediately ahead. Born on 13 April 1957, Kyzdarkhan Rysbergen will celebrate her 70th birthday on 13 April 2027, only five months after receiving the Order of Qurmet. By then, forty-three years will have passed since she formally joined the Department of Onomastics in 1984.
The timing invites reflection, but the greater milestone is intellectual rather than numerical. When Rysbergen entered the Institute, Kazakh academic onomastics was building the card index that would preserve the country’s naming material. Today, she is working in an environment of annotated corpora, digital maps, Latinisation models, interoperable catalogues and quantitative audits of public geographical names. Between those two moments lies not simply a long career but a transformation of what it means to study a proper name.
A note of scholarly gratitude
A tribute to a living scholar should not turn collaboration into mythology. Many of the dictionaries, corpora, standards and recent articles discussed here are collective achievements. Rysbergen worked within a distinguished Kazakh onomastic tradition inherited from scholars such as A. Abdrakhmanov and Telgozha Zhanuzakov and has continued that work together with several generations of colleagues. The significance of her contribution lies not in pretending that one scholar built an entire field, but in recognising an unusual continuity of participation across its successive transformations.
She has been present when names were collected.
She has studied how those names arose.
She has asked what forms of cultural knowledge they preserve.
She has helped establish how they should be written.
She has participated in converting them into digital resources.
And she has helped test how official names behave once they leave the dictionary and enter the map.
For colleagues in onomastics, this may be the most appropriate way to understand the Order of Qurmet: not simply as an honour attached to a distinguished name, but as recognition occurring at the end of more than four decades spent making other people’s names, place names and inherited naming systems visible, interpretable and usable.
There is a special kind of scholarly generosity in such work. Names recovered from historical documents become available to historians. Cultural meanings reconstructed from toponyms become available to linguists and ethnographers. Standardised forms become available to administrators, teachers and cartographers. Corpus data become available to the next generation of researchers. And inconsistencies discovered in contemporary databases become questions for tomorrow’s scholarship.
An order recognises an individual.
A scholarly legacy is what that individual makes possible for others.
For more than forty years, Kyzdarkhan Rysbergen has helped make the Kazakh onomasticon possible to record, understand, standardise and search.
On the occasion of the award of the Order of Qurmet - and in anticipation of her seventieth birthday - this is an appropriate moment not only for congratulations, but for scientific gratitude.
Most important works
It is not claimed to reproduce all of the 150–180 works attributed to Rysbergen in institutional sources.
1993. Рысбергенова, К.К. Историко-лингвистический анализ топонимов Южно-Казахстанской области (на материале западных районов). Автореферат диссертации на соискание учёной степени кандидата филологических наук. Алматы. The Russian State Library record gives 22 pp.
1998. Жанұзақ, Т., Әбдірахманов, А., Рысбергенова, Қ., Сапарбекова, Ә., Мектепов, А., Рахметов, Ш., et al. Қазақстанның географиялық атаулары. Ақмола облысы [Geographical Names of Kazakhstan: Akmola Region]. Алматы: Рауан. 324 pp.
2000. Рысбергенова, К.К. Историко-лингвистическое исследование топонимов Южного Казахстана. Алматы: Ғылым. 150 pp.
2001. Джанузаков, Т., Рысбергенова, К.К., Онгарбаева, Н., Турлыкожаев, Т. Қазақстан Республикасының топонимдері. Топонимия Республики Казахстан: наименования населенных пунктов и крупных физико-географических объектов [Toponyms of the Republic of Kazakhstan: Names of Settlements and Major Physical-Geographical Features]. Алматы. 425 pp.
2002. Жанузаков, Т., Рысберген, К., Абдрахманов, С. Инструкция по русской передаче казахских и казахской передаче русских географических названий Республики Казахстан. Алматы.
2003. Рысберген, Қ. Ұлттық ономастика – уақыт сынында [National Onomastics under the Test of Time]. ҚР ҰҒА Хабарлары. Тіл, әдебиет сериясы, no. 3.
2004. Жанұзақ, Т., Рысберген, Қ. Қазақ ономастикасы: жетістіктері мен болашағы [Kazakh Onomastics: Achievements and Future]. Алматы: Азия. 128 pp. ISBN 9965-9341-2-6.
2005. Жанұзақ, Т., Рысберген, Қ. Қазақ ұлттық ономастикасының өзекті мәселелері [Current Issues of Kazakh National Onomastics]. Қазақстанның ғылыми әлемі / Научный мир Казахстана, no. 1, pp. 44–48.
2007. Рысберген, Қ.Қ. Концептуалды зерттеулер методологиясы жөнінде [On the Methodology of Conceptual Research]. In Қазақ тілінің лексикология, лексикография, фольклортану мен көркем аударма мәселелері: қалыптасуы, дамуы мен болашағы. Алматы: Арыс.
2010. Рысберген, Қ.Қ. Қазақ топонимиясының лингвокогнитивтік және этномәдени негіздері [Linguocognitive and Ethnocultural Foundations of Kazakh Toponymy]. Doctoral dissertation. Алматы.
2011. Рысберген, Қ.Қ. Ұлттық ономастиканың лингвокогнитивтік негіздері [Linguocognitive Foundations of National Onomastics]. Алматы: Дайк-Пресс. 328 pp.
2012. Рысберген, К. Роль лексикографических источников в реконструкции языкового концепта. In XIII Международная научная конференция «Ономастика Поволжья», Ярославль, 13–14 September 2012.
2012. Рысберген, Қ. Қазақ есімдер жүйесінің ұлттық мәдениетпен байланысы [The Relationship of the Kazakh Name System with National Culture]. Тілтаным, nos. 3–4.
2012. Рысберген, Қ. Алматы қаласының лингвистикалық ахуалы [The Linguistic Situation of Almaty]. In Ономастиканың өзекті мәселелері. Алматы.
2012. Рысберген, Қ. Ұлттық ономастикалық кеңістіктегі тарихи топонимдердің орны [The Place of Historical Toponyms in the National Onomastic Space]. In Өңірлердегі ономастика мәселелері: елді мекендердің дәстүрлі тарихи атаулары. Петропавл.
2013. Рысберген, Қ. Ономастика мен ұлттық мәдениеттің өзара байланысы (экстралингвистикалық фактор) [The Relationship between Onomastics and National Culture: The Extralinguistic Factor]. Тілтаным, no. 3.
2013. Рысберген, Қ. Ономастикалық атаулар номинациясындағы географиялық фактор [The Geographical Factor in the Nomination of Onomastic Names]. Тілтаным, no. 4.
2013. Рысберген, К. Об общности аксиологического компонента в концептах казахской и русской лингвокультур. In Science Progress in European Countries: New Concepts and Modern Solutions. Stuttgart, pp. 76–80.
2013. Рысберген, Қ. Тарихи атауларды сақтау ұлттық мүдде мәселесі [Preserving Historical Names as a Matter of National Interest]. Ономастикалық хабаршы, no. 1. Астана.
2016. Rsaliyeva, N., & Rysbergen, K. Onomastic space of Kazakhstan: Current condition and problems. In C. Hough & D. Izdebska (Eds.), Names and their environment: Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Onomastic Sciences, Glasgow, 25–29 August 2014 (Vol. 4, pp. 153–165). University of Glasgow.
2017. Жанұзақов, Т., Рысберген, Қ.Қ., Оңғарбаева, Н.Б., Серікбаева, А.Д., Барменова, Н.Т. Қазақстан Республикасы. Әкімшілік-аумақтық бірліктер атаулары. Анықтамалық [Republic of Kazakhstan: Names of Administrative-Territorial Units. Reference Book]. Алматы: Дайк-Пресс. 604 pp. Rysbergen is listed as organisational leader, editorial-board member and compiler. The book contains approximately 19,000 names.
2017. Rysbergen, K.K. “Ethnocultural Specificity of Onomastic Nomination.” News of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Series of Social and Human Sciences, 5(315), pp. 54–57.
2017. Рысберген, К.К. “Реалии постсоветской действительности в русской ономастической системе Казахстана.” Филологические науки. Вопросы теории и практики, no. 10(76), part 3, pp. 167–170.
2018. Рысберген, Қ.Қ. Ономастикалық атауларды латын әліпбиінде жазудың теориялық мәселелері [Theoretical Issues in Writing Onomastic Names in the Latin Alphabet].
2018 [issue; online record 2019]. Рысберген, Қ.Қ., Халидуллаева, Г.Б. Ж. Нәжімеденов жырларындағы «Туған жер» концептісінің репрезентациясы [Representation of the “Native Land” Concept in the Poetry of Zhumeken Nazhimedenov]. ҚазҰУ Хабаршысы. Филология сериясы, 172(4), pp. 102–109.
2019. Рысберген, Қ.Қ., Тлегенова, Г.Б. Космонимдік атаулардың мифтанымдық сипаты [The Mythological Nature of Cosmonymic Names]. Евразийский Союз Ученых, no. 3(60), pp. 40–44. DOI: 10.31618/ESU.2413-9335.2019.9.60.40-44.
2020. Қазақ тіліндегі өзге тілді ономастикалық атаулар. Анықтамалық [Foreign-Language Onomastic Names in Kazakh: A Reference Book]. Алматы. Editor: Қ. Рысберген; compilers N. Barmeshova, Z. Sadyrbayeva, Zh. Turgynbayeva, D. Sadyk, A. Seitbatkal.
2021. Рысберген, Қ., Садық, Д. Алматының годонимдік жүйесіндегі тілдік ерекшеліктер [Linguistic Features of Almaty’s Hodonymic System]. Тілтаным, 4(84). DOI: 10.55491/2411-6076-2021-4-81-90.
2021. Рысберген, Қ., Садық, Д., Рсалиева, Н. Алматы қаласы ономастикалық кеңістігінің жаһандану жағдайындағы тілдік-әлеуметтік даму үдерісі [Linguistic and Social Development of Almaty’s Onomastic Space under Globalisation]. Әл-Фараби, 76(4). DOI: 10.48010/2021.4/1999-5911.08.
2021. Рысберген, Қ.Қ., Шаһин, И. Шеттілдік географиялық атауларды қазақ тілінің латын графикасы негізінде жазу тілді реформалаудың маңызды міндеті [Writing Foreign Geographical Names in a Latin-Based Kazakh Script as an Important Task of Language Reform]. Қарағанды университетінің хабаршысы. Филология сериясы, 4(104), pp. 7–14. DOI: 10.31489/2021Ph4/7-14.
2022. Рысберген, Қ., Пашан, Д., Садырбаева, З., Бармешова, Н. Қазақстан Республикасын ономастикалық қызмет саласындағы стандарттау негіздері [Foundations of Standardisation in the Field of Onomastic Activity of the Republic of Kazakhstan]. Адам әлемі, 92(2), pp. 141–152. DOI: 10.48010/2022.2/1999-5849.14.
2022 [issue; online 2023]. Рысберген, Қ.Қ., Рсалиева, Н.М., Садырбаева, З.Б., Пашан, Д.М., Сейтбатқал, Ә.Б. Ономастикалық ішкорпусты жасау және әлемдік тәжірибе [Creating an Onomastic Subcorpus and International Experience]. Bulletin of L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University. Philology Series, 139(2), pp. 8–19. DOI: 10.32523/2616-678X-2022-139-2-8-19.
2023. Rysbergen, K., Uali, N. Халықтық топонимдердегі ақ және қара түстердің мәдени-тілдік семантикасы [Cultural-Linguistic Semantics of White and Black in Folk Toponyms]. Bulletin of the Eurasian Humanities Institute. Philology Series, no. 1, pp. 128–142. DOI: 10.55808/1999-4214.2023-1.10.
2023. Rysbergen, K., Sadyrbayeva, Z., Pashan, D., Seitbatal, A., Sadyk, D. “Experience of Creating the Onomastic Subcorpus of the National Corpus of the Kazakh Language.” Tiltanym, 3(91).
2023. Alimbay, N.A., Fazylzhanova, A.M., Smagulov, B.Q., Rysbergen, K.K. “Strengthening the Peasant Colonization of the Kazakh Krai in the Period of the Stolypin Agrarian Reform (1906–1917).” Bylye Gody, 18(4), pp. 2075–2095. DOI: 10.13187/bg.2023.4.2075.
2024. Рысберген, Қ.Қ. Халықтық тарихи микротопонимдердің лингвомәдени семантикасы [Linguocultural Semantics of Folk Historical Microtoponyms]. Tiltanym, no. 2, pp. 5–17. DOI: 10.55491/2411-6076-2024-2-5-17.
2024. Nursan A., Rysbergen K., Uali N., and Smagulov B. Qazaqstannyn soltüstik, soltüstik-shyğys aimaqtarynyñ dästürli toponimdik landshafty jäne krestiandyq otarlau faktory: lingvomädeni-tarikhi zertteu [The Traditional Toponymic Landscape of Northern and Northeastern Kazakhstan and the Factor of Peasant Colonization (Second Half of the Nineteenth Century–1917): A Linguo-Historical Study]. Almaty: Asyl. 544 pp. ISBN 978-601-08-4486-5.
2024. Rysbergen, K.K., Pashan, D.M., Sadyk, D.A. “Problems of Commercialisation and Commercial Nomination of the Urbanonymic Landscape of Almaty.” RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 15(2), pp. 520–543. DOI: 10.22363/2313-2299-2024-15-2-520-543.
2024. Rysbergen, K., Uali, N., Fazylzhanova, A., Kuderinova, K. “Linguistic Explication of Rational and Irrational Knowledge Types in the Content of Toponyms (on the Material of the Linguocultural Dictionary).” Open Linguistics, 10(1), article 20240031. DOI: 10.1515/opli-2024-0031.
2025. Amirbekova, A., Orynbasar, T., Rysbergen, K., Pashan, D. “Когнитивный стиль метафоризации в художественном тексте.” Eurasian Journal of Philology: Science and Education, 197(1), pp. 18–28. DOI: 10.26577/EJPh202519712.
2025. Rysbergen, K., Rsaliyeva, N., Pashan, D., Schochenmaier, E., Seyitbatkal, A. “From Foreign to Familiar: Transliteration Challenges in the Latinization of Kazakh Exonyms.” Forum for Linguistic Studies, 7(6), pp. 42–55. DOI: 10.30564/fls.v7i6.9617.
2025. Rysbergen, K., Schochenmaier, E. “The Impact of Script Reform on Names across Cultures. Lessons for Kazakhstan’s 2031 Latinization.” Cultural Perspectives, no. 30, pp. 228–252. DOI: 10.29081/CP.2025.30.11.
2026. Sadyk, D.A., Rysbergen, K.K., Schochenmaier, E., Bazarbayeva, Z.M. “From Cyrillic to Latin: A Step Toward Phonemic Precision in Kazakh.” XLinguae, 19(2), pp. 306–315. DOI: 10.18355/XL.2026.19.02.18.
2026. Pashan, D., Rysbergen, K., Sadyk, D. “Branding and Image as Significant Factors Forming the Urbanonymic Space of Almaty.” Bulletin of Shakarim University. Philology Series, 1(2/6), pp. 6–15.
2026. Pashan, D., Rysbergen, K., Schochenmaier, E. “Exonymization Strategies Across Scripts: A Typological Review and Research Agenda for Kazakhstan.” Acta Onomastica, 67(2), pp. 389–412. DOI: 10.58756/A2673416.
2026. Schochenmaier, E., Rysbergen, K., Kuderinova, K., Pashan, D. “From Law to Label: Evaluating Kazakhstan’s Toponymic Standardization in Practice.” Language Problems and Language Planning. DOI: 10.1075/lplp.25013.sch.
