As Russia’s war in Ukraine rages on, a quiet cultural shift is unfolding in the region's written language—marked by a move away from the Cyrillic script in favour of Latin letters, says Maria ...

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 ...

Q is the least (or second least, depending on method of counting) frequently used letter in the English language. It usually occurs as the sequence “qu”, pronounced “kw” at the beginning of syllables, ...

One of the first acts of legislation voted by Azerbaijan's parliament after the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991 was to adopt a Latin script to replace the Cyrillic alphabet forcibly imposed on the ...

Following years of intense debates, Kazakhstan is finally set to abandon Cyrillic script in favor of the Latin alphabet by 2025. It appears that the alphabet is still a very divisive issue in the ...

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 language ...

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 ...

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 ...