Posts Tagged
Latin alphabet

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  2017/06/12 - 12:55 • Analysis & Opinion, Russia, Ukraine

  Moscow worried Russian ‘ceasing to be language of majority’ in Ukraine, Shchetkina...

  The Kremlin isn’t pleased that the number of Ukrainians who use Russian is declining, but it if far more concerned with something else: the possibility even likelihood that “Russian too obviously is ceasing to be the language of the...

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  2017/04/29 - 11:33 • Analysis & Opinion, Ukraine

  Would shift to Latin script liberate Ukrainian or destroy it?

  Even though Ukrainian has a stronger historical claim to the Cyrillic alphabet than does Russian and even though it captures Ukrainian sound values quite well, some Ukrainians want to make the shift away from Cyrillic to a Latin script in...

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  2017/04/18 - 20:41 • Analysis & Opinion

  Moscow reacts to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan switching from Cyrillic with hysterics

  Russian reaction to the decisions of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan to move away from the Cyrillic-based scripts Moscow imposed on them to Latin-based scripts that will help them integrate into the broader Turkic and international worlds has...

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  2016/03/23 - 00:02 • Analysis & Opinion, Op-ed

  Ukraine should shift from Cyrillic to Latin script, former Verkhovna Rada deputy...

  To solidify its break from a Russia-dominated space, Ukraine should shift from the Cyrillic alphabet used in Russian language to a script based on the Latin alphabet used by European countries, according to Oleksandr Doniy, the head of the...

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