Just weeks after making its debut, Kazakhstan’s provisional Latin alphabet is drawing widespread criticism, even from those who strongly support the Latinization of the written language. Discontent is ...

When Sarvar Otamuradov ran for president in Uzbekistan last year, one of his main campaign promises was to push through the full-fledged adoption of the Latin alphabet. The tone of Otamuradov’s ...

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 ...

In Kazakhstan, talk about switching from the Cyrillic to the Latin alphabet has been ongoing since the 1990s. However, only in the late 2010s, did the Kazakh government officially initiate a ...

ALMATY -- Kazakhstan has held a nationwide exam to test students' proficiency with the Latin alphabet, part of the former Soviet republic's shift away from Cyrillic. The 30-minute test was held ...

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 ...

RARELY has the humble apostrophe caused such commotion. Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kazakhstan’s president, wants the punctuation symbol to play a much bigger part in public life. Ordinary Kazakhs are ...

Kazakhstan has given itself seven years to transition from the Cyrillic to the Latin alphabet, in a push to modernize the Central Asian country. But at a village school, not everyone is so sure about ...