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The Karakalpak Alphabet: How Four Scripts Erased a Culture
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore one of the most dramatic cultural erasures in Soviet history: the forced alphabet changes imposed on the Karakalpak people. Over just 50 years, Karakalpak was written in Arabic, Latin, a modified Cyrillic, and finally a unified Cyrillic — each change severing the population from its literary heritage, religious texts, and historical memory. They discuss the 1928 Latinization campaign under the Soviet Union's ‘korenizatsiya’ policy, the abrupt 1940 shift to Cyrillic ordered by Stalin, and the long-term consequences: a generation that couldn't…
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