The law of the letter: The latest bash at an Uzbek alphabet. Alphabet-tinkering continues apace in Central Asia. This time it is the turn of Uzbekistan, where language officials have unveiled 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 ...

“For these 23 years, there were no attempts to adapt Latin to the [needs of the] Uzbek language. There was no competent organization involved in the introduction of the new alphabet into bureaucratic ...

Uzbekistan plans to fully transition the Uzbek language from the Cyrillic script to a Latin-based alphabet by January 1, 2023. The Justice Ministry said in a statement on February 11 that the ...

He signed a decree on “On the translation of the Kazakh language alphabet from the Cyrillic alphabet to the Latin script” only in 2017 and the country plans to get started on the controversial ...

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 ...

The ceremony’s highlight was the official unveiling of the transliteration into Uzbek Latin alphabet of the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols. This project symbolizes Uzbekistan’s ...