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inscriptions from the Orkhon, 106 from the Yenisev, 15 from the Talas, and 78 from the Altai area.
Another old alphabet used by the Turks is the Uyghur alphabet.
In the 8th century, some Turkic groups started migrating away from Middle Asia in different
directions. The Oğuz Turks, who moved to Anatolia, first founded the Selçuk States, then the
Ottoman Empire in 1299 and finally the Turkish Republic in 1923. During this move, they accepted
Islam and adopted the Arabic alphabet. In 1928, Turks started using the Turkish Alphabet, which
was derived from the Latin alphabet.
The Yakut, Azeri, Uzbek and Turkmens developed their own Latin based alphabets during the
early periods of the 20th century, but they were not able to use them due to USSR oppression.
Nowadays Turkmenistan, and Azerbaijan, use the Latin alphabet but Uzbekistan still uses both the
Latin and Cyrillic alphabets.
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