After almost 80 years with an alphabet imposed by Moscow, Kazakhstan is getting its own script and possibly a new name. President Nursultan Nazarbayev has signed off on the new, much shorter set of ...

Several questions must be answered before introducing a single alphabet in Turkic countries. For example, which country will lead this process? Each Turkic state seeks to protect its cultural, ...

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’s planned transition to a Latin alphabet is intertwined with issues of national identity, geopolitical shifts, and post-colonial discourse. Visit Uzbekistan and you’ll see a variety of ...

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 ...