Latinisation or latinization was a campaign in the Soviet Union to adopt the Latin script during the 1920s and 1930s. Latinisation aimed to replace Cyrillic and traditional writing systems for all lan
A Kazakh-language newspaper written in the Latin script from 1937. Published in Almaty.
A Tajik newspaper in Latin script from 1936. Published in Tajik SSR, USSR
Latinxua Sin Wenz
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Latinxua Sin Wenz is a historical series of romanizations for Chinese. Beifangxua Latinxua Sin Wenz, for Mandarin Chinese, was the original iteration, and regional Sin Wenz associations developed vari
Latinisation in the Soviet Union
…Turkic, Iranian, Mongolic, Tungusic, and Uralic languages, totalling 66 of the 72 written languages in the USSR. There also existed plans to latinise Chinese, Korean, and Russian, along with other Slavic languages. By mid-January 1930, the VTsK NA had officially completed its work. However, on 25 January…
An issue of Dazhung Bao (大衆報; Dàzhòng Bào), a Mandarin–Shanghainese newspaper published in Latinxua in 1938. The subtitle of Dhazung Bao is in a Shanghainese adaptation of Sin Wenz, where dh represents the voiced alveolar plosive /d/, and the zh initial does not exist. Sheqben is the Shanghainese romanization of 日本 "Japan", where sh represents the voiced alveolar fricative /z/, and q represents the glottal stop /ʔ/. The pronunciation Lusin instead of *
Giefang Rhbao — Jiefang Daily (pinyin: Jiěfàng Rìbào).