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The Three Alphabets of Uzbekistan: Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
The Uzbek language has been written in three different scripts over the past century: Arabic, Latin, and Cyrillic. Each shift reflected a political upheaval — the Jadid reform movement's modernizing impulse, Stalin's drive to Russify Central Asia, and post-Soviet nation-building. In this episode, Lucas and Luna trace the alphabet reforms from the 1920s Latinization campaign, spearheaded by figures like Yuldash Akhunbabayev, to Stalin's 1940 decree imposing Cyrillic, and the slow, contested return to Latin after independence. They explore what was lost — the poetry of Cholpan…
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