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Residents of the Central Asian nation are poised to adopt what would be the fifth different official alphabet in less than a century, moving to a modified Latin-based alphabet by the beginning of ...
The Turkish alphabet has 29 letters, seven of which (Ç, Ş, Ğ, I, İ, Ö, Ü) have been modified from their Latin originals to reflect the actual sounds of spoken Turkish.
An alphabet is a collection of letter-symbols that have been more or less standardized, and which often—though not always—reflect all of the sounds made in a particular language.
Cautiously, the government is preparing to replace the Cyrillic-based alphabet used for Kazakh since Joseph Stalin’s dictatorship with a modified Latin alphabet.
Between them, Kazakhstan’s 18m people speak 117 languages but the country is opting for the Latin alphabet as it aims for wider global integration.
The Cia-Cia language has been passed down orally for centuries. Now the tribe’s children are learning to write it in Hangul, the Korean script.
The transition from Cyrillic script to a Roman-based alphabet is "historically important" for Kazakhstan, according to President Nursultan Nazarbayev on Monday. Speaking during a meeting with ...
The reason for that is simple: classical Latin (for which the Roman alphabet was designed) had about 20 consonant sounds and five vowel sounds.
Ever Wonder Why Encylopedia Is Sometimes Spelled Encyclopædia? Scribes added the ash to the Roman alphabet so they could phonetically spell sounds that Latin didn’t include ...
Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev on Friday announced the country's alphabet will gradually switch from Cyrillic to Latin script. Kazakh, a Turkic language, currently uses a modified ...