Moscow (AsiaNews) - By 2023, Kazakhstan will return to the Latin alphabet, renouncing the Cyrillic language now used also for the Kazakh language, as well as for the Russian one which is still ...

And for me, switching constantly from Cyrillic to Latin just gets annoying," she says. Kydyralina says her family in Kazakhstan won't experience the same smooth transition.

That the Cyrillic alphabet can't properly express all the sounds in their native Tatar language. For 16-year-old Adeyla Hizbolinah the benefit is being able to connect to the world outside Russia.

Kazakh, a Turkic language, currently uses a modified Cyrillic alphabet with 42 letters. The Latin alphabet will have 32 letters. Certain sounds will be covered by the use of apostrophes.

An illustration image shows the new Latin-based Kazakh alphabet published in newspaper in Almaty, Kazakhstan October 27, 2017. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov/Illustrationa [Reuters] 28 Oct 2017 ...

In May 2017, in fact, President Nursultan Nazarbayev signed a decree that established the gradual transition of the Kazakh alphabet from Cyrillic to Latin, by 2025. The choice was dictated by the ...

Even as Kazakhstan maintains close economic and political ties with Russia, Astana is moving ahead with plans to replace Cyrillic script with the Latin alphabet. A feasibility study prepared over the ...

In 1929 the Soviet Union replaced the Arabic script with Latin, but 11 years later Latin was replaced with the Cyrillic alphabet, to be “more in line with the rest of the USSR”, the BBC says.

Uzbek was written in an Arabic script until the late 1920s, then switched to Latin script as part of a larger Latinization of Turkic languages, before the Soviets introduced Cyrillic in 1940.

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 ...

Moscow (AsiaNews) - By 2023, Kazakhstan will return to the Latin alphabet, renouncing the Cyrillic language now used also for the Kazakh language, as well as for the Russian one which is still ...