As Russia’s war in Ukraine rages on, a quiet cultural shift is unfolding in the region's written language—marked by a move away from the Cyrillic script in favour of Latin letters, says Maria ...

Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoev has issued a decree to hasten the full transition of the Uzbek language from the Cyrillic to Latin alphabet. The decree issued on October 21 outlines language ...

The ongoing switch from Cyrillic to a Latin-based alphabet in Kazakhstan has been widely presented as a step toward modernization and global integration by Kazakh officials. However, in Russian media, ...

Americans who have spent decades debating the metric system and the relative merits of Celsius and Fahrenheit could take a lesson in mental flexibility from Uzbekistan. Residents of the Central Asian ...

On 1 November 1928, a new Turkish alphabet law was passed making making the use of Latin letters compulsory in all public communications and the education system 11 July 1928 A new alphabet for ...

Uzbekistan plans to fully transition the Uzbek language from the Cyrillic script to a Latin-based alphabet by January 1, 2023. The Justice Ministry said in a statement on February 11 that the ...

Kazakhstan has announced plans to switch the from Cyrillic to the Latin alphabet, its third change in less than 100 years. The latest Kazakh security device: a personal guard wolf Kazakhstan President ...