The article deals the problems of transcription an arabographic literary heritage. Turkic people are used various writing systems and alphabets to nowadays, and we have a lot of works which as considering as a cultural heritage. These works are researched by domestic scientists in accordance with modern realities and norms of the Kazakh language. Comprehensive studies of the written heritage are being conducted to this day, which starting from ancient stone writing monuments, written relics of the Uyghur, Karakhanid, Khorezm, Chagatai periods. Although the Orkhon-Yenisei inscriptions were first read by foreign Turkologists, domestic researchers also have many works in this area. In the course of such work, scientists have used various symbols of transcription and transliteration. Russian, Turkish and Western scholars have used their own symbols and methods of transcription. This indicates a lack of methods of unification among scientists. In Russia and the CIS countries are used the Cyrillic system of transcription.

The transition of the Kazakh alphabet to the Latin script presupposes the formation of a new transcription system of medieval written relics.