Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. After almost 80 years with an alphabet imposed by Moscow, Kazakhstan is getting its own script and possibly a new name.

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 ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev has called on his government to begin preparing to shift the nation's ...

News that Kazakhstan is proceeding with plans to switch the alphabet used for the Kazakh language from Cyrillic to Latin is stoking a furious public debate. The battle lines cross the linguistic ...