As proponents of the Latinization of the Uzbek language like to argue, a transition away from the Soviet-imposed Cyrillic alphabet would allow the nation to fully assert its national identity. Critics ...

Alphabet-tinkering continues apace in Central Asia. This time it is the turn of Uzbekistan, where language officials have unveiled the latest — and what they say is the last — revision to the Latin ...

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 ...

Uzbekistan is one of the few countries that has undergone four different alphabet reforms in the a ... The Russian language is still a mandatory subject at public schools and the young generation ...

The Central Asian nation of Uzbekistan is set to switch ... and ng were used as in the Turkish language. Following the adoption of the new alphabet draft, which was presented to the public for ...

Writers and language lovers alike are cautiously optimistic that ... to usher in a new secular Uzbek identity fit for communist modernity. A Latin alphabet for Uzbek was introduced in 1928 and used ...

Adopting a standard alphabet could prove relatively easy for Azerbaijan, Turkey, and Uzbekistan ... to talk about the transition of the Kyrgyz language to the Latin alphabet," Japarov has said.