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Why did the USSR change the native scripts of some minority languages? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

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For example Azeris, Turkmens, Tajiks transitioning from the Arabic script, and Buryats from the Mongol script.

And why wasn't there a cyrillisation of Georgian and Armenian?

To me the script changes seemed unnecessary, but I'm curious what you think

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[–] 2000watts@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Easy answer! Because Arabic and Mongol scripts were too hard to learn for kids, so the Bolsheviks, being the internationalists that they were, initially changed them to Latin script, but the teachers complained that Latin script is too hard for kids, so they switched to the Cyrillic script. There was no cyrillisation of Georgian and Armenian because they were already easy enough, but there was Georgianisation of Abkhaz language, which was already written in Cyrillic.

[–] CPCsStrongestWumao@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 week ago

the Bolsheviks also attempted to latinize Russian, as well!

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