Languages written in a Cyrillic alphabet
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This is a list of languages that have been written in the Cyrillic script at one time or another. See also early Cyrillic alphabet.
Distribution of the Cyrillic script worldwide. The dark green shows the countries that use Cyrillic as the one main script; the lighter green those that use Cyrillic alongside another official script.
Contents
Indo-European languages
- Indo-Iranian languages
- Indo-Aryan languages
- Romani (in Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria and former USSR)
- Iranian languages
- Indo-Aryan languages
- Romance languages
- Romanian (up to the 19th century, and a different form of Cyrillic in Moldova from 1940–89 exclusively; now Cyrillic is used in Transnistria officially and in the rest of the country in everyday communication by some groups of people; see Moldovan alphabet)
- Ladino in occasional Bulgarian Sephardic publications.
- Slavic languages
- Old Church Slavonic
- Church Slavonic
- Belarusian, now almost exclusively in Cyrillic, although there was a Roman version of the language in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The Belarusian Roman script was called Łacinka
- Bosnian, (Bosnian Cyrillic was used in the Bosnian language until the late 18th century.)
- Bulgarian
- Macedonian
- Montenegrin
- Russian
- Rusyn
- Serbian
- Ukrainian
Languages of the Caucasus
(This group is not assumed to comprise genetically related subgroups.)
Sino-Tibetan languages
- Chinese languages
- Dungan (since 1953)
Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages
Mongolian languages
Tungusic languages
Turkic languages
- Altay
- Azerbaijani/Azeri (1939–91, exclusively in Cyrillic, since 1991 officially in Roman)
- Balkar
- Bashkir
- Chuvash
- Crimean Tatar (1938–91)
- Gagauz (1957-1990s, exclusively in Cyrillic, since 1990s officially in Roman, but in reality in everyday communication Cyrillic is used alongside with Roman script)
- Kazakh
- Karachay
- Karakalpak (1940s–1990s)
- Karaim language (20-th century)
- Khakas
- Kumyk
- Kyrgyz
- Nogai
- Tatar (since 1939)
- Turkmen (1940–94 exclusively in Cyrillic, since 1994 officially in Roman, but in reality in everyday communication Cyrillic is used alongside with Roman script)
- Tuvan
- Uyghur (Called Uyghur Siril Yëziqi. Used along with Uyghur Ereb Yëziqi, Uyghur Latin Yëziqi and Uyghur Pinyin Yëziqi)
- Uzbek (1941–98 exclusively in Cyrillic, since 1998 Cyrillic is used alongside with Roman script, which was prescribed as the future alphabet of Uzbek)
- Yakut
Uralic languages
- Samoyedic languages
- Uralic languages
Eskimo-Aleut languages
Afro-Asiatic languages
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (Aisor)
Other languages
- Ket
- Padonkaffsky jargon
- Nivkh
- Tlingit
- Yukaghir
- Russian sign language (uses the Cyrillic script via the Russian Manual Alphabet)
- Constructed languages
References
See also
Categories: - Indo-Iranian languages
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