BISHKEK -- The five countries of the Organization of Turkic States (OTS) have overcome years of disagreements about letters and diacritical marks to agree on a common Latin alphabet for their ...
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 ...
This week, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev met with officials responsible for shepherding the Kazakh language from its present Cyrillic script into a Latin alphabet. As reported by RFE/RL, ...
It disrupted the communication of the Turkish sphere of influence in areas such as language, literature, commerce and economy. Kazakhstan has introduced the new Latin alphabet prepared with the ...
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 ...
The Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan is changing its alphabet from Cyrillic script to the Latin-based style favoured by the West. What are the economics of such a change? The change, announced on a ...
The following is a partner post from EurasiaNet.org written by Uli Schamiloglu. Republished with permission. Kazakhstan’s planned transition to the Latin alphabet raises complex questions. While ...