Communication between Turkic-speaking countries will add a new dimension to Kazakhstan's transition from the Cyrillic alphabet to the Latin alphabet in 2023. Despite gaining independence from the ...

Le plus grand pays ex-soviétique d’Asie centrale vient d’adopter par décret l’abandon du cyrillique et le retour à l’alphabet latin pour l’écriture de la langue kazakhe. Les Kazakhs s’apprêtent à ...

The Central Asian nation of Uzbekistan is set to switch to the Latin alphabet on Jan. 1, 2023, after a 30-year transition period. Following its independence from the Soviet Union, Uzbekistan, which ...

Just weeks after making its debut, Kazakhstan’s provisional Latin alphabet is drawing widespread criticism, even from those who strongly support the Latinization of the written language. Discontent is ...

Kazakhstan has announced plans to switch the from Cyrillic to the Latin alphabet, its third change in less than 100 years. The latest Kazakh security device: a personal guard wolf Kazakhstan President ...

À l’échelle de l’humanité, l’écrit apparaît très récent : les tablettes pictographiques sumériennes d’Ourouk — le plus ancien témoignage d’écriture connu — furent gravées il y a seulement cinq mille ...

Kazakhstan’s long-awaited transition from the Cyrillic to the Latin alphabet may be on the verge of happening. Lawmakers in early September considered a preliminary proposal for a 25-letter Kazakh ...

Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoev has issued a decree to hasten the full transition of the Uzbek language from the Cyrillic to Latin alphabet. The decree issued on October 21 outlines language ...

BAKU, Azerbaijan, Aug. 2 -- Citizens of the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan were coming to terms Thursday with the previous day's controversial decision to switch from the Cyrillic to the Latin ...

SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine -- Crimean Tatar language experts have approved a move to stop using the Cyrillic alphabet and return to the Latin alphabet, RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service reports. The issue was ...

On 1 November 1928, a new Turkish alphabet law was passed making making the use of Latin letters compulsory in all public communications and the education system 11 July 1928 A new alphabet for ...