Yana imla
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The word Qazan - قازان is written in Yaña imlâ in the semblance of a Zilant

Yaña imlâ ([jʌˈŋɑ imˈlʲæ]; Cyrillic: яңа имля; Tatar for new orthography) was a modified variant of Arabic script that was in use for Tatar language in 1920-1927. The orthographical reform modified İske imlâ, abolishing excess Arabic letters, adding letters for short vowels e, ı, ö, o. Some diacritic, that looked like comma was used to designate the vowel harmony. This, however, broke languages involved, and this reform was applied to some other Turkic languages as well, apart from standard Arabic orthography where vowels in the middle of a word are denoted only with harakat. Whether Yaña imla or İske imlâ better fit Tatar language as an Arabic alphabet is debatable. Standard Arabic orthography provided more similar orthography between Turkic languages due to the use of harakat. Arguably, Yaña imlâ had as its goal the accommodation of the alphabet to the actual Tatar pronunciation.

There were some projects that were to simplify Yaña imlâ too. The unique separated Arabic was invented (so as to use typewriters). Separated Arabic were even incorporated to the early flag of Tatar ASSR. But it wasn't in real use.

As early as in 1924 the first projects of Latin alphabet were introduced and in 1928 alphabet was switched to Latin-based Jaŋalif.

See also

• Tatar alphabet
• Tatar language

Source

• (Tatar) "Arabic alpabet". Tatar Encyclopedia. (2002). Kazan: Tatarstan Republic Academy of Sciences Institution of the Tatar Encyclopaedia. 

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