Modern Day Language "Reforms"

Inspired by a recent thread in PC about Turkey, what countries could see a major language and writing reform equivalent to that seen in Turkey during the nineteenth century? I'm not including places that did not have a standardised method at the time, so much of Africa is out.

During the nineteenth century in the US, there were a number of attempts at spelling reform (including a few alternate, phonetic based scripts) and an emphasis among language reformers on making a "genuinely American" mode of speech. Obviously, those had petered out by the 20th century.....

The French obviously have the much less draconian Academie Francaise, which does something similar- although it is more conservative than reactionary.

Communist countries such as the Soviet Union have a good chance, and did see some less drastic attempts in OTL.

Any thoughts on possible candidates?

Here's the quote which got me thinking, I had my disagreement later in the thread:

I think calling Kemal Ataturk a fascist is too much-he was a populist authoritarian, like many other 20th century political leaders. While I think he did some good things for Turkey, I don't think it makes up for his attempt to utterly destroy Turkey's links to its past. Imagine if the US government switched English to Cyrillic (or another non-Latin alphabet) and eliminated all words of non-Germanic origin in favor of Germanic neologisms, so that Chaucer, Dickens, and Shakespeare were unreadable to anyone who didn't study "pre-reform English" for years in college, and you begin to understand the sheer damage Ataturk inflicted on Turkish culture.
 
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