BISHKEK -- The five countries of the Organization of Turkic States (OTS) have overcome years of disagreements about letters and diacritical marks to agree on a common Latin alphabet for their ...

Another possibility for a source alphabet is Latin. Those who subscribe to this theory believe that the numerous commercial contacts between the Germanic tribes and the Roman Empire during the ...

Last Friday Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev finally decreed that the language would shed its heavy Cyrillic coat and don what he hopes to be a more fashionable attire: the Latin alphabet.

You can both read the ancient Maya (transcribed using the Roman alphabet) and hear it spoken (by Mayanist Barbara MacLeod) as well as read the English translation. Accompanying notes explain each ...

Kazakhstan’s planned transition to a Latin alphabet is intertwined with issues of national identity, geopolitical shifts, and post-colonial discourse. In Kazakhstan, talk about switching from ...

Turkey has decided to replace the term “Central Asia” with “Turkestan” in its national history curriculum. By using the term ...

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Google Translate is adding a new language to its platform that could serve thousands of people in Ottawa as well as Canada's ...

Once Rome's power began to decline and the independence of the outlying areas increased, people more and more wrote as they spoke, using the symbols of the Roman alphabet to reflect their own ...

One of the most widely spoken Indigenous languages in this country is now available through Google's translation service, the ...

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Hexagon Capital Partners LLC decreased its position in Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL – Free Report) by 3.5% in the 3rd quarter, ...