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 ...

The Cabinet of Ministers intends to approve the alphabet of the Crimean Tatar language based on the Latin script. Ukrainian News Agency learned this from a statement of the Ministry of Reintegration ...

As proponents of the Latinization of the Uzbek language like to argue ... parliament adopted legislation titled “On the Introduction of an Uzbek Alphabet Based on Latin Script” that set down the ...

Earlier this month, Azerbaijan completed its transition to a new Latin script to replace the Cyrillic alphabet in use since the late 1930s. Two Azerbaijani-language newspapers have refused to ...

Tashkent had planned to complete a three-decade-long transition from Soviet-imposed Cyrillic to a Latin script by January ... and other languages that use a Latin alphabet.

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At a calligraphy class in Hanoi, Hoang Thi Thanh Huyen slides her brush across the page to form the letters and tonal marks of Vietnam's unique modern script, in part a legacy of French colonial rule.

The Malaysian language can be written with the Latin alphabet or in Jawi, a form of Arabic script. Here a group of cuties sings the Jawi “Alif Ba Ta.” Written Thai has a complex relationship ...

is the alphabet that the language is written in. Adopted around the 700s, the English alphabet is based on Latin script and has 26 letters consisting of five vowels, nineteen consonants and two ...

Of course, it can also be a frustrating process, and one which makes us wonder why the whole world doesn’t just speak English and write with the Latin script ... alphabet, Hangul Day should be an ...

The Latin script will place Kazakhstan alongside western countries, not to mention other Turkic-language states that have adopted that alphabet. Some Kazakhs would like the reform to proceed faster.