In the 1920s this language of Anatolia switched from the Arabic to the Latin alphabet
... the move 
to switch the Turkmen language to a Latin script shortly after... [DOC] [TLE] The Global Decline of the Arabic Script | ComingAnarchy.com [PAR] Feb 15, 2010 ... For centuries, Arabic was the central language to science and trade, and ... 
decline in the use of Arabic, and a critical loss over ten years from the late 1920s 
to ...