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 ...

Moscow The Ministry of Education in Tatarstan, a republic among the 89 members of the Russian Federation, is shelving Cyrillic in favor of the Latin alphabet for schools and universities. Select ...

"The Latin alphabet was used [in Kazakhstan] from 1929 to 1940," Nazarbayev said. "In 1940…a law was adopted transferring the Kazakh language from the Latin alphabet to one based on Russian script.

Letters from the Cyrillic and Greek alphabets can look identical to letters in English’s Latin alphabet, and can be used in something called a homograph attack.

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.

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 ...

Between 1929 and 1939, the Latin alphabet was introduced as part of an experiment, but the imposition of Cyrillic in most republics proved to be better for Moscow in the long term.

BISHKEK -- Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambaev has expressed doubts about a possible switch of the Kyrgyz language from Cyrillic to the Latin alphabet. Speaking at a conference in Bishkek on July ...

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 ...