Sentence:  In 1924 the Soviets held a Conference at Baku to consider this question, and it was decided there to adopt the <WSD>Latin script</WSD> for the various Tartar languages of central Asia. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The script (set of symbols) rooted in the Latin alphabet of ancient Rome and adapted over the centuries to form the alphabets of scores of other languages; like Cyrillic script, it corresponds to a family of alphabets rather than a single alphabet.