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, ...

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 ...

Graphic designers often hope to express the power of communication through their work, but not many attack the project as literally as the Lebanese designer Rana Abou Rjeily does. She has created ...

In April, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev included an order to generate a plan to switch Kazakh from a Cyrillic to a Latin alphabet by 2025 in a larger “strategic plan,” published in a state-run ...

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 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.

RARELY has the humble apostrophe caused such commotion. Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kazakhstan’s president, wants the punctuation symbol to play a much bigger part in public life. Ordinary Kazakhs are ...

Earlier this month, Azerbaijan completed its transition to a new Latin script to replace the Cyrillic alphabet in use since the late 1930s. Two Azerbaijani-language newspapers have refused to comply ...

A website in Kazakhstan is showing users how their names will look in a new Latin alphabet expected to come into force by 2022. Many have reacted with dismay after ...

When Sarvar Otamuradov ran for president in Uzbekistan last year, one of his main campaign promises was to push through the full-fledged adoption of the Latin alphabet. The tone of Otamuradov’s ...