Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- In order to accelerate the process of linguistic unity and the transition of the Turkic states to a common alphabet, a Commission has been formed to create a single alphabet.

The decision to form a Commission on the creation of a single alphabet was submitted to the Organization of Turkic States (OTS) at the "Seminar on the Common Alphabet of the Turkic World", held in the Turkish city of Bursa and dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the Day of Language, the Turkish state agency "Anadolu" reports.

The seminar was chaired by the head of the Turkish Language Society (TDK) Gürer Gülsevin. It was attended by the head of the Council of Elders of the OTS, deputy chairman of the Justice and Development Party of Turkey Binali Yildirim.

At the seminar, scientists from the Turkic states provided information about the alphabet and historical language processes that took place in their countries and noted the importance of accelerating the process of transition to a single alphabet and its distribution among the Turkic states.

Within the framework of the seminar, it was decided to form a "Commission for the creation of a single alphabet" under the OTS.

The Commission will include two members from each official structure dealing with language policy in the Turkic states.

The Commission is to submit a report on the unified alphabet to the OTS Council of Elders.

The first meeting of the Commission on the creation of a single alphabet will be held in Kyrgyzstan.

For reference: the OTS includes Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkey, Uzbekistan, and the observer countries are Hungary and Turkmenistan. In addition to Kyrgyzstan, these states use the Latin alphabet.