Main article: Among others, Cyrillic is the standard script for writing the following languages:. Slavic languages:, (for, and ),. Non-Slavic languages:, (now mostly in church texts), (to be replaced by Latin script by 2025 ), (some dialects), (now only in church texts), (Siberian Yupik), and (in ). The Cyrillic script has also been used for languages of Alaska, (except for and some ), the, and the.
The alphabet has also been extended to support dozens of other, non-Slavic languages. See my 'Beyond Slavic' Cyrillic fonts page instead of this one if you're looking for a font that supports non-Slavic as well as Slavic languages. See my OCS Cyrillic fonts page if you're looking for a font that supports Old Church Slavonic. Change the font: Instructions. To type directly with the computer keyboard: Type e= to add a diacritic signe. Online keyboard to type a text with the Cyrillic characters of the Russian alphabet.
The first alphabet derived from Cyrillic was, used for the. Other Cyrillic alphabets include the for the Komi language and various alphabets for.
Name Since the script was conceived and popularised by the followers of, rather than by Cyril and Methodius themselves, its name denotes homage rather than authorship. The name 'Cyrillic' often confuses people who are not familiar with the script's history, because it does not identify a country of origin (in contrast to the 'Greek alphabet'). Among the general public, it is often called 'the Russian alphabet,' because Russian is the most popular and influential alphabet based on the script.
Some Bulgarian intellectuals, notably, have expressed concern over this, and have suggested that the Cyrillic script be called the 'Bulgarian alphabet' instead, for the sake of historical accuracy. In Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, and Serbian, the Cyrillic alphabet is also known as azbuka, derived from the old names of the first two letters of most Cyrillic alphabets (just as the term alphabet came from the first two Greek letters alpha and beta). BCE. (semi-syllabic) 7 c. BCE. (see).
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1840. 3 c. CE. 1949 CE.
2 c. BCE. (old Turkic) 6 c.
650 CE. 1204 CE. 2 c. BCE. (syllabary; letter forms only) c. 1820 CE.
2 c. CE. (origin uncertain) 4 c. CE.
405 CE. (origin uncertain) c. 430 CE.
862 CE. c. 940 CE. 1372 CE 1443 18 c. CE (derived from ). Map showing the expansion of the use of the Latin alphabet in areas of the former A number of languages written in a Cyrillic alphabet have also been written in a, such as, and (in the until 1989, in throughout the 19th century).
After the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991, some of the former republics officially shifted from Cyrillic to Latin. The transition is complete in most of Moldova (except the breakaway region of, where is official),. Still uses both systems, and has officially begun a transition from Cyrillic to Latin (scheduled to be complete by 2025). The government has mandated that Cyrillic must be used for all public communications in all, to promote closer ties across the federation. This act was controversial for speakers of many Slavic languages; for others, such as and speakers, the law had political ramifications. For example, the separatist Chechen government mandated a Latin script which is still used by many Chechens. Those in the diaspora especially refuse to use the Chechen Cyrillic alphabet, which they associate with Russian imperialism.
Armenian Standard uses. Cyrillic is nominally the official script of Serbia's administration according to the Serbian constitution; however, the law does not regulate scripts in standard language, or standard language itself by any means. In practice the scripts are equal, with Latin being used more often in a less official capacity. The, used between the 1950s and 1980s in portions of the People's Republic of China, used a mixture of Latin, phonetic, numeral-based, and Cyrillic letters. The non-Latin letters, including Cyrillic, were removed from the alphabet in 1982 and replaced with Latin letters that closely resembled the letters they replaced.
Romanization There are various systems for of Cyrillic text, including to convey Cyrillic spelling in letters, and to convey. Standard Cyrillic-to-Latin transliteration systems include:., used in linguistics, is based on the.
The Working Group on Romanization Systems of the recommends different systems for specific languages. These are the most commonly used around the world.:1995, from the International Organization for Standardization. American Library Association and Library of Congress Romanization tables for Slavic alphabets , used in North American libraries.
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(1947), United States Board on Geographic Names & Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for British Official Use)., a now defunct Soviet transliteration standard. Replaced by GOST 7.79, which is equivalent. Various, which adapt the Cyrillic script to Latin and sometimes Greek glyphs for compatibility with small character sets. See also,. Cyrillization Representing other writing systems with Cyrillic letters is called.
Computer encoding Unicode.
Page Content. New Page. Languages Written in Cyrillic Not surprisingly, many languages that were part of the former Soviet Union are written in the Cyrillic alphabet or use Cyrillic as one of the possible available scripts. Some languages include languages like, Belarussian, Bulgarian, Macedonian sometimes.
However, Cyrillic is also used for non-Slavic Central Asian languages such Uzbek, Kazakh, Kyrghiz, Azer and others. Many are, but the list covers a wide variety of language families including Caucausian, Iranian, Uralic, Mongolian and multiple indigenous languages of Siberia. Note: Some languages in Central Asia can be written in either Cyrillic, the Western Latin alphabet or depending on the location of a particular speaker community. Font Recommendations Extra Cyrillic Letters The Cyrillic script as a totality includes letters not used in Russian, but which are important for other languages. If you are working with a language other than Russian, it is important that have access to fonts which include these characters.
A font that supports Russian may not support all the extra Cyrillic characters. Test Characters Examples of non-Russian Cyrillic characters are shown in the table below. You can see additonal examples on the Some Non-Russian Capital Letters Character Name Character CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER IE WITH GRAVE Ѐ CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER DJE (Serbian) Ђ CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER UKRAINIAN IE Є CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER NJE Њ CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ZHE WITH BREVE Ӂ CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER GHE WITH STROKE (Kazakh/Central Asian) Ғ CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER LITTLE YUS (Early Slavic) Ѧ Recommended Fonts The fonts below support a wide range of characters including historical characters and those from Central Asian Cyrillic languages. Common System Fonts The most recent version of these fonts support a. Microsoft: Arial/Arial Unicode, Times New Roman, Calibri, Cambria. Apple: Lucida Grande.
Others: Helvetica (Neue) Third Party Fonts. Central European Languages If you are working with languages such as Russian, Ukrainian, Macedonian or other languages more closely related to Russian, you may discover additional fonts which support the the characters you need even if they don’t include all Cyrillic characters. Typing Cyrilic Activating Keyboards Both and provide a wide range of which can be activated to allow a user to type in a particular Cyrillic language. Note that in many cases the layout will match that used in the different countries.
If a particular language is not supported, you can look to see if one has been developed by another source. It is important to make sure the developer is reputable in this situation. Transliterated Keyboard Options If you wish to use a transliterated (or phonetic/QWERTY) layout in which Cyrillic letters are mapped to the closest English keyboard counterpart, the options are more limited. Bulgarian and Ukrainian.
Both Windows 10 and Macintosh provide a Phonetic keyboard for Bulgarian. Third party phonetic keyboards for also exist. Other Options One possibility is to use a and use other techniques to insert additional letters as needed. Another is to search to see of a transliterated keyboard has been developed and posted online.
It is important to make sure the developer is reputable in this situation. Web Development and Language Codes. If this sites is not displaying correctly, see the page for debugging information. Encodings Unicode ( utf-8) is the for Web sites, especially because it includes all Cyrillic and non-Cyrillic characters. Selected Language Tags allow browsers and other software to process Russian text more efficiently.
Below is a list of selected languages written in Cyrillic. ab (Abkhaz). av (Avar). az (Azerbaijani/Azeri).
ba (Bashkir). be (Byelorussian/Belarussian). bg (Bulgarian).
cv (Chuvash). kk (Kazakh). kca (Khanty/Hanty/Ostyak).
kv (Komi). ky (Kyrghiz). lez (Lezgian). mk (Macedonian). mn (Mongolian). mo ( Deprecated = ro ).
niv (Nivkh). oaa (Orok/Uilta). os (Ossetian).
ru (Russian). rue (Rusyn).
sr (Serbian). tg (Tajik). tt (Tatar). tk (Turkmen). ug (Uyghur). uk (Ukrainian).
uz (Uzbek) Script Codes Some languages in this region can be written in Cyrillic or alternate scripts. Below are some which can be used to identify which script is being used. – Cyrl (Cyrillic script). – Latn (Latin/Western script). – Arab (Arabic script). – Cyrs (Old Church Slavonic script). – Glag (Glagoltic) Script Code Examples For a language like Uzbek which has been written in three scripts (Cyrillic, Arabic and Latin), the codes would be:.
uz-Cyrl (Uzbek in Cyrillic text). uz-Arab (Uzbek in Arabic script). uz-Latn (Uzbek in Western/Latin alphabet) Similarly, Serbian in Cyrillic is sr-Cyrl while Serbian in the Latin alphabet would be sr-Latn. Using Unicode Escape Characters If you wish to input a word or short phrase, you can use Unicode entity codes. See the or for details. Links Eastern European/Central Asian Languages Cyrillic Characters. Cyrillic Fonts.
Cyrillic Computing. – Fonts and utilities for Ukrainian.
Some already available with the most recent versions of Macintosh and Windows.