However, most mobile phone manufacturers only include a single alphabet on their keypads. Digit Wireless saw this as an issue and decided to release a phone with two different alphabets on the keypad.

As a result, some letters look the same and are used near identically. Others look the same but have different pronunciations, like the P in Cyrillic, which stands for an r-sound.

Visit Uzbekistan and you’ll see a variety of alphabets used, a product of the country’s many changes and the long march toward fully using a Latin script.