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Languages using Cyrillic

This is a list of languages that have been written in the Cyrillic alphabet at one time or another. See also early Cyrillic alphabet.

Contents 1 Indo-European languages 2 Languages of the Caucasus 3 Sino-Tibetan languages 4 Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages 5 Mongolian languages 6 Tungusic languages 7 Turkic languages 8 Uralic languages 9 Eskimo-Aleut languages 10 Afro-Asiatic languages 11 Other languages 12 See also

Indo-European languages

• Indo-Iranian languages
  • Indo-Aryan languages
    • Romani (in Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Bulgaria and former USSR)
  • Iranian languages
    • Kurdish (living in former USSR)
    • Ossetic (since 18th century, modern alphabet since 1938)
    • Tajik (However in May 2008, Tajikistan declared its intention to switch back to Persian script from Cyrillic)^[1]
    • Tat (Judeo-Tat)
    • Shughni

• 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
  • Bulgarian
  • Macedonian
  • Russian
  • Rusyn
  • Serbian
  • Ukrainian
  • Croatian used its redaction of Cyrillic (arvatica, poljičica) in church registry books in some Croat-inhabited areas until mid 19th century.

Languages of the Caucasus

(This group is not assumed to comprise genetically related subgroups.)

• Northeast Caucasian languages:
  • Avar
  • Chechen (since 1938, also with Roman 1991–2000)
  • Dargwa
  • Lak
  • Lezgian
  • Tabassaran
• Northwest Caucasian languages:
  • Abaza
  • Abkhaz
  • Adyghe
  • Kabardian

Sino-Tibetan languages

• Chinese languages
  • Dungan (since 1953)

Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages

• Chukchi (since 1936)
• Koryak (since 1936)
• Itelmen

Mongolian languages

• Buryat
• Kalmyk
• Mongolian

Tungusic languages

• Evenk (since 1936)
• Nanai
• Udihe (Udekhe) (writing recently is not used)

Turkic languages

• Altay
• Azeri (1939–91, exclusively in Cyrillic, since 1991 officially in Roman, but in reality in everyday communication Cyrillic is used alongside with Roman script)
• 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)
• Khakas
• Kumyk
• Kyrgyz
• Nogai
• Tatar (since 1939; also with Roman since 2000, although not officially in Russia)
• 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
• 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
  • Nenets (since 1937)
  • Selkup (since 1950s writing recently is not used)
• Finno-Ugric languages
  • Karelian (1940–1991)
  • Khanty
  • Mansi (since 1937 writing has not received distribution)
  • Komi
    • Komi-Zyrian (since 17th century, modern alphabet since 1930s)
    • Komi-Permyak
  • Mari (since 19th century)
  • Mordvin languages
    • Erzya (since 18th century)
    • Moksha (since 18th century)
  • Sami (in Russia, since 1980s)
    • Kildin Sami
  • Udmurt

Eskimo-Aleut languages

• Aleut (in 19th century)
• Central Siberian Yupik (Yuit)

Afro-Asiatic languages

• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (Aisor)

Other languages

• Nivkh
• Ket
• Yukaghir
• Russian sign language (uses the Cyrillic alphabet via the Russian Manual Alphabet)
• Constructed languages
  • International auxiliary languages
    • Lingua Franca Nova
  • Fictional languages
    • Brutopian (Donald Duck stories)
    • Syldavian (The Adventures of Tintin)

See also

• Cyrillic alphabet
• Cyrillic alphabet variants
• List of Cyrillic letters
• Category:Cyrillic alphabet