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 ...

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, ...

Political officials would much rather people focus on an imaginary ‘threat’ to the Cyrillic script in Serbian society than crime or corruption. Only days after Belgrade’s central bus station was ...

Kazakhstan’s planned transition to the Latin alphabet raises complex questions. While alphabets may not be important in and of themselves, they play an important role in helping define a nation’s ...

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 ...

ALMATY (Reuters) - Kazakhstan is to change its official alphabet for the third time in less than 100 years in what is seen in part as symbolic move to underline its independence. President Nursultan ...

A website in Kazakhstan is showing users how their names will look in a new Latin alphabet expected to come into force by 2022. Many have reacted with dismay after ...

The Latin alphabet’s letter A can be traced back to an Egyptian hieroglyph of an ox head; the letter M is believed to have its origins in a hieroglyph representing water. These pictograms are no ...