In 2019, an updated alphabet was proposed, triggering loud discussions among the public. Finally in 2021, a roadmap for the gradual full transition to the Latin-based Uzbek alphabet was approved.

Turkey adopted the Latin script in 1928 over the Arabic alphabet. Other Turkic nations briefly used Latin during the early years of the Soviet Union after switching from Arabic script. But Moscow ...

Kazakh has been written in a Cyrillic script since 1940, but government officials have long pushed for a gradual shift to a Latin alphabet.

The president’s office on Friday announced that the government will appoint a national commission to “ensure a gradual transition of the Kazakh alphabet to the Latin-based script until 2025”.

Kazakh, a Turkic language, used to be written in Arabic script until the 1920s when the Soviet Union briefly introduced a Latin alphabet for it.

As an example, Turkey, which switched to a Latin-based alphabet from its former Arabic script in 1928, has managed to form alliances with the European Union and was in negotiations – up until ...

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 ...

There is also budget for developing a language converter IT program to recode Cyrillic script into Latin in the third quarter of 2018 (approximately $166,000), improving the qualifications of ...

School children say the new alphabet is much easier to read, but not everyone agrees. The road signs have all been changed and billboards and posters are now in the Latin ABC. Writing or printing ...