The transition from Cyrillic script to a Roman-based alphabet is "historically important" for Kazakhstan, according to President Nursultan Nazarbayev on Monday. Speaking during a meeting with ...

WHAT makes a nation adopt a new script? İlker Aytürk, a political scientist with a penchant for the history of language at Ankara's Bilkent University, tackles this question in a new paper in the ...

The Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan is changing its alphabet from Cyrillic script to the Latin-based style favoured by the West. What are the economics of such a change? The change, announced on a ...

On 1 November 1928, a new Turkish alphabet law was passed making making the use of Latin letters compulsory in all public communications and the education system 11 July 1928 A new alphabet for ...

The Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan is changing its alphabet from Cyrillic script to the Latin-based style favoured by the West. What are the economics of such a change? The change, announced on a ...

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Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev has signed a decree to switch the country’s official alphabet from Cyrillic to Latin. The president’s office on Friday announced that the government will ...