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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 romanized, totaling nearly 50 of the 72 written languages in the USSR. There also existed plans to romanize Russian and other Slavonic languages as well, but in the late 1930s the latinisation campaign was canceled and all newly-romanized languages were converted to Cyrillic.

The following languages were romanised or new alphabets were invented for them:

  1. Abaza language
  2. Abkhaz language
  3. Avar language
  4. Adyghe language
  5. Azeri language
  6. Altai language
  7. Assyrian language
  8. Bashkir language
  9. Baluchi language
  10. Buryat language
  11. Vepsian language
  12. Dargin language
  13. Dungan language
  14. Bukhori language
  15. Ingrian language
  16. Ingush language
  17. Itelmen language
  18. Kabardian language
  19. Kazakh language
  20. Kalmyk language
  21. Karakalpak language
  22. Karachay-Balkar language
  23. Karelian language
  24. Ket language
  25. Kirghiz language
  26. Chinese language
  27. Komi language
  28. Koryak language
  29. Crimean Tatar language
  30. Krymchak language
  31. Kumandin language
  32. Kumyk language
  33. Kurdish language
  34. Laz language
  35. Lak language
  36. Lezgin language
  37. Mansi language
  38. Moldovan language
  39. Nanai language
  40. Nenets languages
  41. Nivkh language
  42. Nogai language
  43. Ossetic language
  44. Persian language
  45. Sami language
  46. Selkup language
  47. Tabasaran language
  48. Tajik language
  49. Talysh language
  50. Tatar language
  51. Tat language
  52. Turkmen language
  53. Udege language
  54. Udi language
  55. Uyghur language
  56. Uzbek language
  57. Khakas language
  58. Khanty language
  59. Tsakhur language
  60. Chechen language
  61. Chukchi language
  62. Shor language
  63. Shughni language
  64. Evenk language
  65. Even language
  66. Eskimo language

Projects were created and approved for the following languages:

  1. Aleut language
  2. Arabic language
  3. Korean language
  4. Udmurt language
  5. Russian language
  6. Ukrainian language



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