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 ...

One of the first acts of legislation voted by Azerbaijan's parliament after the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991 was to adopt a Latin script to replace the Cyrillic alphabet forcibly imposed on ...

The proposed version of the alphabet consists of 31 letters. It is noted that the project is based on the decision of the Kurultai of the Crimean Tatar people of 1991-1993. The transition of the ...

Alphabet-tinkering continues apace in Central Asia. This time it is the turn of Uzbekistan, where language officials have unveiled the latest — and what they say is the last — revision to the 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 ...

The Latin script will place Kazakhstan alongside western countries, not to mention other Turkic-language states that have adopted that alphabet. Some Kazakhs would like the reform to proceed faster.

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

RFE/RL reported that the official new alphabet, devised by Uzbek linguists, will be a variation on the Western-style Latin script, with 29 letters and an apostrophe to accommodate the requirements ...

The new script is a modified form of the Latin alphabet, which is used to write not only English but many other languages, including Turkic ones related to Kazakh, such as Turkish.

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 ...