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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...