There are characters in Arabic for which there are no Latin equivalent. So either you will end up creating new characters or borrow from Turkish Latin script
Cool. I would say "use the Phonecian or Hebrew scripts because they're Semitic scripts that are phonetically similar but easier to read" but that would be much more offensive than using the Roman script and reassigning the pronunciation of some letters. Some Germanic and non-Cyrillic Slavic languages (e.g., Polish) had the same problem and solved it the same way.
@Aestu why is Yiddish preferred over Hebrew amongst Jews outside Israel? Has there been ever talk of writing Hebrew in Latin script?
Jewish tradition requires all male Jews to learn to read the Torah, which is, obviously, written in the Hebrew script. Therefore, all Jews were traditionally familiar with that script. Yiddish came into being as the script was used to write out the Low German spoken by Ashkenazim. Ladino and Aramaic/Judeo-Arabic came to exist in Sephardic and Mizrahi communities for the same reasons. So, the lingua franca of whatever countries Jews in the Diaspora were living in, were inevitably married to the Hebrew script - and it could never happen the other way around.
Israel is a melting-pot of Jewish ethnic groups that were completely discrete in the Diaspora, being as they were on different continents. The Mizrahim and Sephardim became effectively extinct outside Israel after the Jewish Nakba in the 1960s. Therefore, most Jews who still live in the Diaspora are Ashkenazim whose ethnic language is Yiddish.
Modern Hebrew is the lingua franca of Israel, in the same way English is the lingua franca of the US. So, Yiddish, by its very nature, is a household language, and fills the same role as English. Therefore, the only people who speak it as such, rather than English, are haredim (ultra-Orthodox Ashkenazim) who live in highly insular communities in the West. For Jews who are neither extremely traditional and insular haredim living in the West, nor sabras (Jews born in Israel), the role filled by Modern Hebrew is filled by English. Therefore, Diaspora Ashkenazim have no reason to speak Modern Hebrew growing up and must instead struggle to pick it up later. This is one of the strongest incentives for Jews to make aliyah and raise their children in Israel.
The US is one of a very few countries where violent antisemitism has never been a mainstream social force. Therefore, there has been a growing number of Jews who are not insular purely for its own sake and thus need not learn Yiddish (but also have a relative lack of incentive to develop more than a nominal knowledge of Biblical Hebrew either). On the other hand, Yiddish is perceived in increasingly romantic terms by latter-day Diaspora Ashkenazim and their pride in their ancestors' culture. Being able to speak it (which is very rare outside those communities) is therefore a significant mark of status and Jewish education.
Sorry for the wordy response. Does that answer your question, PNG?
With sufficient motivation a person can learn any language. Why did the Turks not motivate their own people to learn their own script? Or was it Ata Turks goal to drop the Ottoman baggage of Turkey and try to integrate it into Europe? How many Turks can read texts from the Ottoman era?
That's the trick there. Motivation. Rednecks are completely not "motivated" to learn to read - yet they do. It comes down to human nature and the social benefits of a script that is apparently leaps and bounds easier to learn regardless of "motivation."
