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Why did the USSR change the native scripts of some minority languages? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 2 months ago by KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

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For example Azeris, Turkmens, Tajiks transitioning from the Arabic script, and Buryats from the Mongol script.

And why wasn't there a cyrillisation of Georgian and Armenian?

To me the script changes seemed unnecessary, but I'm curious what you think

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[–] CPCsStrongestWumao@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 months ago

the Bolsheviks also attempted to latinize Russian, as well!