Latinisation (USSR)

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A Kazakh language newspaper in Latin script from 1937. Published in Alma-ata, Kazakh SSR, USSR
A Kazakh language newspaper in Latin script from 1937. Published in Alma-ata, Kazakh SSR, USSR

In the USSR, latinisation (Russian: латиниза́ция — latinizatsiya) was the name of the campaign during the 1920s-1930s which aimed to replace traditional writing systems for numerous languages with the Latin alphabet and to create for languages had no writing. Almost all Turkic, Iranian, Finno-Ugric and several other languages were romanised, totaling nearly 50 of the 72 written languages in the USSR. There also existed plans to romanise Russian and other Slavonic languages as well, but in the late 1930s the latinisation campaign was canceled and all newly-romanised languages were converted to Cyrillic.

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