Kazakhstan’s planned transition to a Latin alphabet is intertwined with issues of national identity, geopolitical shifts, and post-colonial discourse. Visit Uzbekistan and you’ll see a variety ...

The Kazakh Latin alphabet alongside the Arabic script from a 1924 ABC book. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain In April, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev included an order to generate a ...

Moscow associated the Arabic alphabet with Islam and, consequently, saw the adoption of a new way of writing as a quick path to casting off what they viewed as obscurantism and superstition. Latin ...

The current Latin-based alphabet used in the South Caucasus country consists of 32 letters. Turkmenistan -- which is a not a OTS member but has observer status in the organization -- reintroduced ...

The plan for the switch to Latin reportedly centres on an alphabet of 32 letters, with some specific sounds of the Kazakh language to be covered with the use of apostrophes.

In 1929 the Soviet Union replaced the Arabic script with Latin, but 11 years later Latin was replaced with the Cyrillic alphabet, to be “more in line with the rest of the USSR”, the BBC says.