Kazakhstan has announced plans to switch the from Cyrillic to the Latin alphabet, its third change in less than 100 years. The latest Kazakh security device: a personal guard wolf Kazakhstan President ...

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 ...

Before using the current alphabet that has 28 letters, the Philippines had 4 sets of letters since the pre-colonial times MANILA, Philippines – Like many nations colonized by westerners, the ...

Alphabet-tinkering continues apace in Central Asia. This time it is the turn of Uzbekistan, where language officials have unveiled the latest — and what they say is the last — revision to the Latin ...

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 ...

Kazakhstan has announced it will outline a new alphabet by the end of this year as the Central Asian nation plans to change from a Cyrillic-based script to Latin. Kazakh Minister of Education and ...

Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev has enacted a new Latin version of the Kazakh alphabet, according to the head of state’s official website on Tuesday. The new list contains 32 characters ...

Americans who have spent decades debating the metric system and the relative merits of Celsius and Fahrenheit could take a lesson in mental flexibility from Uzbekistan. Residents of the Central Asian ...

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 ...

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 ...