Arabic and Latin alphabet world distribution. How did you decide on the name Mirsaal? The name came from the idea that this font has a mission to simplify Arabic and make it understandable to non ...

Latin lettering on signs would help firefighters and police respond more quickly to emergency situations and promote economic development, they said.

Residents of the Central Asian nation are poised to adopt what would be the fifth different official alphabet in less than a century, moving to a modified Latin-based alphabet by the beginning of ...

In September of that year, parliament adopted legislation titled “On the Introduction of an Uzbek Alphabet Based on Latin Script” that set down the timetable. The plan was to inculcate familiarity ...

The Latin alphabet was officially introduced in Azerbaijan in 1929 to replace Arabic script, in use since the 7th century, but the first documents written in Latin Azeri date back to 1923 and ...

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 ...

Although Turkey undertook this as a kind of “shock therapy,” Kazakhstan has chosen a gradual path by choosing the final form of the alphabet by the end of 2017, training educators in the new alphabet, ...

Kazakhstan has introduced the new Latin alphabet prepared with the contribution of Turkish linguists. Kazakhstan, which has the largest surface area among the Turkic republics and gained its ...

Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoev has issued a decree to hasten the full transition of the Uzbek language from the Cyrillic to Latin alphabet. The decree issued on October 21 outlines ...

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev has ordered that his country’s official alphabet be changed from Cyrillic to Latin. For Kazakhstan, this is symbolic distancing of the former Soviet state ...

An illustration image shows the new Latin-based Kazakh alphabet published in newspaper in Almaty, Kazakhstan October 27, 2017. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov/Illustrationa [Reuters] ...

Then we switched to the Latin alphabet. We have been reading and writing in Cyrillic letters since 1940. Fear is voiced that our cultural heritage might be lost.