A final draft of the Latin-based Uzbek alphabet -- with 29 letters and an apostrophe to denote a hard sign, specific sounds, or intonations -- was presented in 2019. Kazakhstan is set to complete ...

Kawasaki says the letter "Z" on its motorcycles was taken from the Latin alphabet and means "ultimate." The first was the ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

The Central Asian nation of Uzbekistan is set to switch to the Latin alphabet on Jan. 1, 2023, after a 30-year transition period. Following its independence from the Soviet Union, Uzbekistan ...

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 ...

A seven-word inscription discovered by accident on a 3,700-year-old lice comb is the oldest known sentence written in an alphabet, according to a new study.

Letters from other alphabets, such as Cyrillic and Greek, can look nearly identical to letters in the English alphabet. Here’s what to know about homograph attacks.

The earliest example of the Latin alphabet in use is called the duenos inscription and comes from the sixth century BCE, 2,500 years ago. Even then, the alphabet was still incomplete, ...