Earlier this month, Azerbaijan completed its transition to a new Latin script to replace the Cyrillic alphabet in use since the late 1930s. Two Azerbaijani-language newspapers have refused to comply ...

BAKU, Azerbaijan, Aug. 2 -- Citizens of the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan were coming to terms Thursday with the previous day's controversial decision to switch from the Cyrillic to the Latin ...

Baku, 1 August 2001 (RFE/RL) -- Azerbaijan today officially ended use of the Cyrillic alphabet in favor of Latin letters. A decree issued several weeks ago by President Heidar Aliyev ordered all ...

A one-semester course on the "Old Azerbaijani Alphabet" will be organised at the "House of Writers" located in Icherisheher from the beginning of 2024, Azernews reports. Participants of the course, ...

"Our language is ancient and rich - the mother tongue of over 50 million people - and needs no foreign borrowings. True, there is an international lexicon, and we all use it. But if there is an old ...