Azerbaijan switched to the Latin script in 2001. Both Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan abandoned the Cyrillic alphabet in the mid-1990s.

The Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan is changing its alphabet from Cyrillic script to the Latin-based style favoured by the West. What are the economics of such a change?

RFE/RL reported that the official new alphabet, devised by Uzbek linguists, will be a variation on the Western-style Latin script, with 29 letters and an apostrophe to accommodate the requirements ...

Visit Uzbekistan and you’ll see a variety of alphabets used, a product of the country’s many changes and the long march toward fully using a Latin script.

The book touches on notions like script direction, vowels, and justification in an innovative way by applying the rules of Arabic to Latin.