May 6th 2010 was a monumental day for the Internet. Why? It was the day the first ever entirely non-Latin script country code top-level domains (ccTLD) went live. If that just made you blurt out huh?, ...

Kazakh President Nazarbaev (file photo) (RFE/RL) October 24, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev today suggested that discussions resume on the expediency of adopting the Latin ...

RARELY has the humble apostrophe caused such commotion. Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kazakhstan’s president, wants the punctuation symbol to play a much bigger part in public life. Ordinary Kazakhs are ...

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 ...

Details: This function was previously available only through the transliteration provided under the translation in Cyrillic. "Have you all noticed that Google can now translate into Crimean Tatar ...

Latin Cursive Script Handwriting is booming - 59 letters for (almost) all world languages Individual handwriting guarantees privacy - the computer does the opposite. The international writing ...

When Sarvar Otamuradov ran for president in Uzbekistan last year, one of his main campaign promises was to push through the full-fledged adoption of the Latin alphabet. The tone of Otamuradov’s ...

Zeerak Ahmed has spent years in the U.S., working for some of the world’s biggest tech companies. But one thing he has grown frustrated with is how “computing treats non-Latin languages as second ...

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 ...