Can I assume that both the Pan-Turkic Latin orthography and the Pan-Nigerian alphabet postdate that?
The Pan-Turkic Latin orthography developed out of the modern Turkish orthography and Latin alphabets in use in the Soviet Turkic republics in the 1920s. Most of the latter alphabets were formalised after 1923, but some languages were already using Latin alongside Arabic earlier than that. For example, the Azeri communist newspaper _Yeni Yol_ used Latin exclusively from 1920.
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What was venerated as style was nothing more than
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