Russians use an alphabet based on the Cyrillic script. The modern Russian alphabet has 33 letters: 21 consonants, ten vowels and two signs. Yet it wasn’t always like that. Inception ...

"The Latin alphabet was used [in Kazakhstan] from 1929 to 1940," Nazarbayev said. "In 1940…a law was adopted transferring the Kazakh language from the Latin alphabet to one based on Russian script.

The Cyrillic alphabet was bolstered by the widespread use of Russian throughout the Soviet Union as the main language of education and administration.

In 1940, the Latin alphabet was replaced with Cyrillic -- the alphabet used for the Russian language. Nazarbaev's previous statements on a possible shift to the Latin alphabet have appeared to irk ...

Russian spelling is much more phonetic than languages using the Latin alphabet, so making this change would be roughly equivalent to turning “fit” into “feet” or “pill” into “peel.” ...

Cyrillic is an ancient script dating back more than 1,000 years with the earliest form of the alphabet emerging in Bulgaria in the 9th Century. But some Bulgarians have found their Twitter ...

The government of Tartarstan -- part of the Russian Federation -- has decided to switch from using the Cyrillic alphabet to the Roman alphabet. The switch is timed to coincide with the 10-year ...