Uzbekistan Senate Approves New Alphabet

The Senate of Uzbekistan approved a law on changing the Uzbek alphabet.

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The Senate of Uzbekistan approved a law to change the Uzbek alphabet.
The new alphabet will consist of 28 letters and one apostrophe, replacing the previous 26 Latin letters and three letter combinations.
The law will enter into force after being signed by the President.
Documents, currency, and securities issued under the old alphabet will remain valid.
Symbols, signs, and displays using the old alphabet may continue to be used until they become unusable or their validity period ends.
The reform aims to improve digitalization and compatibility of the Uzbek language with digital technologies.
The law was previously approved by the lower house of parliament in July of the same year.
The current alphabet is based on Latin script, following a historical shift from Arabic to Cyrillic and back to Latin.

The new alphabet will replace O‘ with Ö, G‘ with Ğ, Sh with Ş, and Ch with Ç, and remove the Ng combination. — vedomosti
The total number of signs in the alphabet remains 29, unchanged from before. — vesti
The Latin alphabet was officially used in Uzbekistan since 1929, and the final transition to the current form took 33 years after the 1993 law. — kommersant
Special software will be developed to enable input of new letters with a single key, and automatic translation tools will be created for texts from Cyrillic and current Latin script. — vedomosti