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 this 2019 photo, a sign for a museum in Bukhara is written in Latin-alphabet Uzbek, in Russian Cyrillic, and in English. Credit: Catherine Putz Subscribe for ads-free reading Members of the Senate ...

Kazakhstan’s planned transition to a Latin alphabet is intertwined with issues of national identity, geopolitical shifts, and post-colonial discourse. In Kazakhstan, talk about switching from the ...

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 ...

Amid fears that the national script is losing out to Latin letters, Serbia’s Culture Ministry is proposing changing the law to better protect its use. Photo: Pxhere Against a background of fears that ...