Tajik alphabet and . (Note that and are switched relative to their usage in the Turkish alphabet, which has formed the basis for other Latin scripts in the former Soviet Union.) The unusual character is called "Gha" and represents the phoneme . The character is found in the Common Turkic Alphabet in which most non-Slavic languages of the Soviet Union were written until the late 1930s. The Latin alphabet is not used today, although its adoption is advocated by certain groups. The Cyrillic script was introduced in Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic in the late 1930s, replacing the Latin script that had been
Korean mixed script interjections, exclamations and onomatopoeia in "hangul". Despite the promotion of the mixed script at the end of the Joseon Dynasty, examples of Korean mixed-script writing date back to the time King Sejong's proclamation of "hangul", which was written completely in literary Chinese, with a few "idu" passages and mixed-script passages that help 'ease' the reader into the new alphabet. The first novel in "hangul", "Yongbieocheonga" (龍飛御天歌, 용비어천가) or "Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven", commissioned by Sejong shortly after the proclamation of the Korean alphabet. Yi Yulgok (李栗谷, 이율곡), a Korean scholar and mathematician translated the Analects of Confucius