Consider Manchester. It is a former Roman fort which was known as Mamuciam. Other places with Roman derivations include Lancaster and Leicester. A significant impact on English which came from the ...

Most European languages that use the Latin source alphabet, Barrett notes, “have the W only because they borrowed English words like whiskey. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have it.

In 1929, the USSR adopted a Latin alphabet, the “Unified Turkic Alphabet” which went into use until 1940 when Cyrillic was adopted across Central Asia.

In 1929, the Soviet Union introduced a Latin alphabet to replace the Arabic scripts used for various Central Asian languages. In 1940, the alphabet was again changed, this time to Cyrillic.

Mirsaal consists of Arabic regular and bold and Latin regular and bold. I first conceived this typeface for the sole purpose of the book, which is to introduce Arabic.

An illustration image shows the new Latin-based Kazakh alphabet published in newspaper in Almaty, Kazakhstan October 27, 2017. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov/Illustrationa [Reuters] 28 Oct 2017 ...

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 ...

Although Turkey undertook this as a kind of “shock therapy,” Kazakhstan has chosen a gradual path by choosing the final form of the alphabet by the end of 2017, training educators in the new alphabet, ...