Gagauz alphabet Gagauz alphabet The modern Gagauz alphabet is a 31-letter Latin-based alphabet modelled on the Turkish alphabet. Previously, during Soviet rule, Gagauz's official script was Cyrillic. Gagauz was first written in Greek letters in the late 1800s. The current 31-letter Gagauz alphabet, used for the Gagauz language, is a Latin-based alphabet modelled after the Turkish. It appears that the first alphabet to be used for the language was the Greek alphabet in the late 19th century. For example, orientalist Otto Blau claims that plays of Euripides had been translated into the Gagauz language and had been written with Greek letters. Beginning
Pegon script Pegon script Pegon is an Arabic alphabet used to write the Javanese and Sundanese languages, as an alternative to the Latin alphabet or the Javanese script and the old Sundanese script. In particular, it was used for religious (Islamic) writing and poetry from the fifteenth century, particularly in writing commentaries of Quran. The word Pegon originated from a Javanese word "pégo", which means "deviate", due to the practice of writing Javanese language with Arabic script, which was considered unconventional by Javanese people. Pegon includes symbols for sounds that are not present in standard Arabic. The main difference between Jawi and