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
Zazaki alphabet Zazaki alphabet The Zazaki alphabet is an extension of the Latin alphabet used for writing the Zaza language, consisting of 32 letters, seven of which (Ç, Ğ, I, İ, Ü, Ş, and Ê) have been modified from their Latin originals for the phonetic requirements of the language. The letters of the Zazaki alphabet are: Zazaki language was written using a Persian form of the Arabic script in Ahmad al-Hasi's work "Mewlıdê Nebi" (Blessing of the prophet) in 1899. After that, another Zaza writer Osman Esad Efendi wrote his work named as "Biyayışê Nebi" (Birth of the prophet) with Arabic script