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 ...

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 ...

The book touches on notions like script direction, vowels, and justification in an innovative way by applying the rules of Arabic to Latin.

Recently, I wrote about how to use special characters to identify languages that use Latin alphabets. But what about all those other alphabets? You can't be expected to memorize them all, of ...

Latin script failed to take root, however, and the desire to forestall the lure of gradually Westernizing Turkey prompted the adoption of Cyrillic in 1940. Views remain mixed about what Uzbekistan ...

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 ...

The Latin alphabet is gaining prominence in Ukraine and Belarus as a symbol of resistance to Russian influence and alignment with the West, according to a linguist.

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