Languages of the Soviet Union: Difference between revisions

 

In 1918, it was decreed that all nationalities in the Soviet Union had the right to education in their own language. The new orthography used the [[Cyrillic script|Cyrillic]], [[Latin alphabet|Latin]], or [[Arabic alphabet|Arabic]] alphabet, depending on geography and culture. After 1937, all languages that had received new alphabets after 1917 began using the Cyrillic alphabet. This way, it would be easier for linguistic minorities to learn to write both Russian and their native language. In 1960, the school educational laws were changed and teaching became more dominated by Russian.{{fact|date=February 2014}}