Thursday 19 May 2011

Languages written in a Cyrillic-derived alphabet

quotation from wiki:

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)
      • Shughni
      • Tajik
      • Tat (Judeo-Tat)
      • Yaghnobi
  • 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
    • Montenegrin
    • Russian
    • Rusyn
    • Serbian
    • Ukrainian

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

  • Even
  • Evenk (since 1937)
  • Nanai
  • Udihe (Udekhe) (writing recently is not used)

Turkic languages

  • Altay
  • Azerbaijani/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)
  • 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
  • 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)
  • Uralic 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
  • Alutiiq
  • Central Siberian Yupik (Yuit)

Afro-Asiatic languages

  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (Aisor)

Other languages

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

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