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
Uyghur New Script official alphabet in China, but after the reintroduction of an Arabic-derived alphabet, , in 1982, there has been a huge decline in the use, and the majority of Uyghurs today use . For romanized Uyghur, the Latin script Uyghur Latin Yëziqi has become more common than . The letters in the UYY (Uyghur New Script) are, in order: Uyghur New Script ' (abbreviated UYY; literally "Uyghur New Script") or ' (literally "new script"; , , ; ; sometimes falsely rendered as "Yengi Yeziķ" or "Yengi Yezik̡"), is a Latin alphabet, with both Uniform Turkic Alphabet and Pinyin influence, used for