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 ...

Recently, the Indian news site Scroll.in had an interesting debate on the relative merits of writing the Hindi language in the Roman alphabet instead of the native Devanagari script, triggered by a ...

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Worried that the future of the Cyrillic alphabet could be under threat, the Serbian authorities will introduce fines and benefits to defend it against the Latin script, media have reported.

On the Hindi author and playwright’s latest work, ‘Mushkil Kaam’, a collection of Hindi short stories presented in the Roman script. PREMIUM Hindi writer Asghar Wajahat has been calling for an ...

As Russia’s war in Ukraine rages on, a quiet cultural shift is unfolding in the region's written language—marked by a move away from the Cyrillic script in favour of Latin letters, says Maria ...

Kazakhstan is to adopt a new alphabet, replacing the Russian Cyrillic script with the alphabet you are reading at the moment. This was announced in October by the Kazakh president, Nursultan ...

From Latin and Chinese to Tamil and Telugu, discover the top ten most popular writing scripts used around the world ...

George Bernard Shaw, a witty fellow as he was, had offered a large sum of money to anybody who would rationalise English spelling rules. Shaw quipped that according to English spelling rules the word ...

WHAT makes a nation adopt a new script? İlker Aytürk, a political scientist with a penchant for the history of language at Ankara's Bilkent University, tackles this question in a new paper in the ...