The Cyrillic alphabet has been the third official alphabet in the European Union along with the Latin and the Greek alphabets since Bulgaria's accession in 2007. It is not by chance that Cyrillic ...

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 ...

ASTANA, KAZAKHSTAN (AFP) - Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev on Wednesday (April 12) set out a timeline for the ex-Soviet country to switch from Cyrillic letters to the Latin alphabet as ...

Assyrian Christian stele from Southern China in 3 languages (Syriac, Uyghur and Chinese) and two scripts (Syriac and Chinese). The Mongolian government on March 18 announced plans to restore the use ...

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 ...

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, which ...