The Central Asian nation of Uzbekistan is set to switch to the Latin alphabet on Jan. 1, 2023, after a 30-year transition period. Following its independence from the Soviet Union, Uzbekistan, which ...

Astana (Agenzia Fides) - "You can try to declare a general rule, which applies in many historical periods and in many linguistic situations: the more the creators of a new alphabet are flexible and ...

Communication between Turkic-speaking countries will add a new dimension to Kazakhstan's transition from the Cyrillic alphabet to the Latin alphabet in 2023. Despite gaining independence from the ...

BAKU, Azerbaijan, Aug. 2 -- Citizens of the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan were coming to terms Thursday with the previous day's controversial decision to switch from the Cyrillic to the Latin ...

The decision of the Ministry of Education risks implosion of literacy in the country and could result in a generational rift. After the fall of the Soviet empire there was a cultural impoverishment of ...

BISHKEK -- The five countries of the Organization of Turkic States (OTS) have overcome years of disagreements about letters and diacritical marks to agree on a common Latin alphabet for their ...

Le plus grand pays ex-soviétique d’Asie centrale vient d’adopter par décret l’abandon du cyrillique et le retour à l’alphabet latin pour l’écriture de la langue kazakhe. Les Kazakhs s’apprêtent à ...

À l’échelle de l’humanité, l’écrit apparaît très récent : les tablettes pictographiques sumériennes d’Ourouk — le plus ancien témoignage d’écriture connu — furent gravées il y a seulement cinq mille ...

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 ...

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, ...

L'alphabet runique était tout autant évolué que l'alphabet latin : c'est la conclusion d'un doctorant. Sa thèse, basée sur des recherches effectuées dans toute la Norvège, remet en question ...

L'association internationale en charge de la gestion des noms de domaine a donné son accord à l'ouverture de 4 extensions géographiques en alphabet non latin. L'emprise des noms de domaines en langue ...