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 ...

Just weeks after making its debut, Kazakhstan’s provisional Latin alphabet is drawing widespread criticism, even from those who strongly support the Latinization of the written language. Discontent is ...

In this 2019 photo, a sign for a museum in Bukhara is written in Latin-alphabet Uzbek, in Russian Cyrillic, and in English. Credit: Catherine Putz Members of the Senate of Uzbekistan started the year ...

Kazakhstan’s planned transition to the Latin alphabet raises complex questions. While alphabets may not be important in and of themselves, they play an important role in helping define a nation’s ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

ALMATY (Reuters) - Kazakhstan is to change its official alphabet for the third time in less than 100 years in what is seen in part as symbolic move to underline its independence. President Nursultan ...