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Turkmen alphabet
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The Turkmen alphabet refers to variants of the Latin alphabet, Cyrillic alphabet, or Arabic alphabet used for writing of the Turkmen language.
1924 poster in Turkmen (top, Arabic-based script) and Russian (bottom)
1924 poster in Turkmen (top, Arabic-based script) and Russian (bottom)
Soviet stamp showing Turkmen costume (1963); the middle text is Turkmen Cyrillic, Türkmen halk geýimleri in Latin orthography
Soviet stamp showing Turkmen costume (1963); the middle text is Turkmen Cyrillic, Türkmen halk geýimleri in Latin orthography
Latinisation in the Soviet Union
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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
Turkmen alphabet
…orthographies in Central Asia, such as Uzbek and Kazakh alphabets). But by 1928, due to state-policy, this orthography was discarded and the Latin script was adopted. In 1940, the Russian influence in Soviet Turkmenistan prompted a switch to a Cyrillic alphabet and a Turkmen Cyrillic alphabet (shown below in the…
A Kazakh-language newspaper written in the Latin script from 1937. Published in Almaty.
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
A Tajik newspaper in Latin script from 1936. Published in Tajik SSR, USSR