Spread of the Latin script new Kazakh alphabet and script should be developed." Education specialists are to be trained to teach the new alphabet and provide textbooks beginning in 2018. The romanisation policy is intended to modernise Kazakhstan and increase international cooperation. In 2001, Austrian slavistics professor Otto Kronsteiner recommended that Bulgaria adopt the Latin script in order to facilitate the country's accession to the European Union. This caused such a scandal that the Veliko Tarnovo University revoked the honorary degree it had previously awarded him (for supporting the Bulgarian viewpoint on the Macedonian language). For many Bulgarians, the Cyrillic alphabet has become an important
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