Just a few months later, the change was already law: on November 1, the Grand National Assembly passed Law No. 1353 on the ...

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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 ...

SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine -- Crimean Tatar language experts have approved a move to stop using the Cyrillic alphabet and return to the Latin alphabet, RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service reports. The issue was ...

Uzbekistan’s president signed a law revising the Latin-based Uzbek alphabet on 21 October, introducing 28 letters and new ...

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 ...

Uzbekistan’s new Latin-based Uzbek alphabet law takes effect on 22 April 2027, introducing 28 letters and an apostrophe while ...

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 20, ...

‘One Day at a Time’: Inside an IDP Camp in Myanmar, Survival Is a Daily Challenge In April, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev included an order to generate a plan to switch Kazakh from a Cyrillic ...