Languages using Cyrillic
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This is a list of languages that have been written in the Cyrillic alphabet at one time or another. See also early Cyrillic alphabet.
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[edit] Indo-European 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
- 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.
[edit] Languages of the Caucasus
(This group is not assumed to comprise genetically related subgroups.)
[edit] Sino-Tibetan languages
[edit] Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages
[edit] Mongolian languages
[edit] Tungusic languages
[edit] 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
[edit] Uralic languages
- Samoyedic languages
- 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)
- Udmurt
[edit] Eskimo-Aleut languages
[edit] Afro-Asiatic languages
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (Aisor)
[edit] Other languages
- Nivkh
- Ket
- Yukaghir
- Russian sign language (uses the Cyrillic alphabet via the Russian Manual Alphabet)
- Constructed languages
