Almaty, Oct. 19 (Reuters): The Kazakhstan central bank has misspelled the word “bank” on its new notes, officials said on Wednesday.

The bank plans to put the misprinted notes — worth 2,000 tenge ($15) and 5,000-tenge — into circulation in November and then gradually withdraw them to correct the spelling.

The move has drawn the ire of the central Asian state’s politicians who urged the bank to abandon the notes altogether.

Language is a contentious issue in Kazakhstan, where the Kazakh language is seen as a national symbol.

The Kazakh word for bank is the Cyrillic form of “bank”. On the new note, the word was written with an alternate Kazakh form of the letter K, which has a slightly different pronunciation.