Latinisation in the Soviet Union
1920S–1930S CAMPAIGN TO DEVELOP LATIN ALPHABETS FOR THE LANGUAGES OF THE SOVIET UNION
Latinization (USSR); Latinisation (USSR); Orthographic Latinisation in the Soviet Union; Orthographic Latinization in the Soviet Union
In the USSR, latinisation or latinization (, ) was the name of the campaign during the 1920s–1930s which aimed to replace traditional writing systems for all languages of the Soviet Union with systems that would use the Latin script or to create Latin-script-based systems for languages that, at the time, did not have a writing system.