List of Cyrillic letters
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Variants of the Cyrillic alphabet
are used by the writing system
s of many languages, especially languages used in the former Soviet Union. The tables below show the primary sounds represented by the letters in many languages – see the articles on the languages for more detail. The highlighted letters are those of the basic Cyrillic alphabet (the original Cyrillic alphabet without the letters no longer used by any language).
Cyrillic alphabet
The Cyrillic script or azbuka is an alphabetic writing system developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 10th century AD at the Preslav Literary School...
are used by the writing system
Writing system
A writing system is a symbolic system used to represent elements or statements expressible in language.-General properties:Writing systems are distinguished from other possible symbolic communication systems in that the reader must usually understand something of the associated spoken language to...
s of many languages, especially languages used in the former Soviet Union. The tables below show the primary sounds represented by the letters in many languages – see the articles on the languages for more detail. The highlighted letters are those of the basic Cyrillic alphabet (the original Cyrillic alphabet without the letters no longer used by any language).
| Language families | Slavic languages Slavic languages The Slavic languages , a group of closely related languages of the Slavic peoples and a subgroup of Indo-European languages, have speakers in most of Eastern Europe, in much of the Balkans, in parts of Central Europe, and in the northern part of Asia.-Branches:Scholars traditionally divide Slavic... |
Other Indo-European Indo-European languages The Indo-European languages are a family of several hundred related languages and dialects, including most major current languages of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and South Asia and also historically predominant in Anatolia... |
Uralic Uralic languages The Uralic languages constitute a language family of some three dozen languages spoken by approximately 25 million people. The healthiest Uralic languages in terms of the number of native speakers are Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian, Mari and Udmurt... |
Caucasian Languages of the Caucasus The languages of the Caucasus are a large and extremely varied array of languages spoken by more than ten million people in and around the Caucasus Mountains, which lie between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.... |
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| Alphabet | ru Russian alphabet The Russian alphabet is a form of the Cyrillic script, developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 10th century AD at the Preslav Literary School... |
be Belarusian alphabet The Belarusian alphabet is based on the Cyrillic script and is derived from the alphabet of the Old Church Slavonic language. The alphabet has existed in its modern form since 1918 and consists of thirty-two letters... |
uk Ukrainian alphabet The Ukrainian alphabet is the set of letters used to write Ukrainian, the official language of Ukraine. It is one of the national variations of the Cyrillic script.... |
rue Rusyn language Rusyn , also known in English as Ruthenian, is an East Slavic language variety spoken by the Rusyns of Central Europe. Some linguists treat it as a distinct language and it has its own ISO 639-3 code; others treat it as a dialect of Ukrainian... |
sr Serbian Cyrillic alphabet The Serbian Cyrillic alphabet is an adaptation of the Cyrillic script for the Serbian language, developed in 1818 by Serbian linguist Vuk Karadžić. It is one of the two standard modern alphabets used to write the Serbian language, the other being Latin... |
bg Bulgarian language Bulgarian is an Indo-European language, a member of the Slavic linguistic group.Bulgarian, along with the closely related Macedonian language, demonstrates several linguistic characteristics that set it apart from all other Slavic languages such as the elimination of case declension, the... |
mk Macedonian alphabet The orthography of Macedonian includes an alphabet , which is an adaptation of the Cyrillic script, as well as language-specific conventions of spelling and punctuation.... |
mo | os Ossetic language Ossetian , also sometimes called Ossete, is an East Iranian language spoken in Ossetia, a region on the slopes of the Caucasus Mountains.... |
tg Tajik alphabet The Tajik language has been written in three alphabets over the course of its history: an adaptation of the Arabic script , an adaptation of the Latin script, and an adaptation of the Cyrillic script... |
sjd | mhr Mari language The Mari language , spoken by more than 600,000 people, belongs to the Uralic language family. It is spoken primarily in the Mari Republic of the Russian Federation as well as in the area along the Vyatka river basin and eastwards to the Urals... |
mrj Mari language The Mari language , spoken by more than 600,000 people, belongs to the Uralic language family. It is spoken primarily in the Mari Republic of the Russian Federation as well as in the area along the Vyatka river basin and eastwards to the Urals... |
udm Udmurt language Udmurt is an Uralic language, part of the Permic subgroup, spoken by the Udmurt natives of the Russian constituent republic of Udmurtia, where it is coofficial with Russian. It is written in the Cyrillic script with five additional characters. Together with Komi and Komi-Permyak languages, it... |
kca Khanty language Khanty or Xanty language, also known previously as the Ostyak language, is a language of the Khant peoples. It is spoken in Khanty-Mansi and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous okrugs, as well as in Aleksandrovsky and Kargosoksky districts of Tomsk Oblast in Russia... |
yrk Nenets language The Nenets language refers to either of two languages spoken in northern Russia by the Nenets people. They are often treated as being two dialects of the same language, but they are very different and mutual intelligibility is very low... |
ab Abkhaz language Abkhaz is a Northwest Caucasian language spoken mainly by the Abkhaz people. It is the official language of Abkhazia where around 100,000 people speak it. Furthermore, it is spoken by thousands of members of the Abkhazian diaspora in Turkey, Georgia's autonomous republic of Adjara, Syria, Jordan... |
kbd Kabardian language The Kabardian language, also known as East Circassian , is a Northwest Caucasian language, closely related to the Adyghe language. It is spoken mainly in the Russian republics of Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia and in Turkey and the Middle East... |
ce Chechen language The Chechen language is spoken by more than 1.5 million people, mostly in Chechnya and by Chechen people elsewhere. It is a member of the Northeast Caucasian languages.-Classification:... |
| А а | /a/ | /a/ | /a/ | /a/ | /a/ | /a/ | /a/ | /a/ | /a/ | /a/ | А | А | А | А | А | А | А | А | А |
| Ӑ ӑ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Ӓ ӓ | Ӓ | Ӓ | Ӓ | ||||||||||||||||
| Ә ә | Ә | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ӛ ӛ | Ӛ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ӕ ӕ | /ɐ/ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Б б | /b Voiced bilabial plosive The voiced bilabial plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is b. The voiced bilabial plosive occurs in English, and it is the sound denoted by the... / |
/b Voiced bilabial plosive The voiced bilabial plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is b. The voiced bilabial plosive occurs in English, and it is the sound denoted by the... / |
/b Voiced bilabial plosive The voiced bilabial plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is b. The voiced bilabial plosive occurs in English, and it is the sound denoted by the... / |
/b Voiced bilabial plosive The voiced bilabial plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is b. The voiced bilabial plosive occurs in English, and it is the sound denoted by the... / |
/b Voiced bilabial plosive The voiced bilabial plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is b. The voiced bilabial plosive occurs in English, and it is the sound denoted by the... / |
/b Voiced bilabial plosive The voiced bilabial plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is b. The voiced bilabial plosive occurs in English, and it is the sound denoted by the... / |
/b Voiced bilabial plosive The voiced bilabial plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is b. The voiced bilabial plosive occurs in English, and it is the sound denoted by the... / |
/b Voiced bilabial plosive The voiced bilabial plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is b. The voiced bilabial plosive occurs in English, and it is the sound denoted by the... / |
/b Voiced bilabial plosive The voiced bilabial plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is b. The voiced bilabial plosive occurs in English, and it is the sound denoted by the... / |
/b Voiced bilabial plosive The voiced bilabial plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is b. The voiced bilabial plosive occurs in English, and it is the sound denoted by the... / |
Б | Б | Б | Б | Б | Б | Б | Б | Б |
| В в | /v Voiced labiodental fricative The voiced labiodental fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is v.... / |
/v Voiced labiodental fricative The voiced labiodental fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is v.... / |
/v Voiced labiodental fricative The voiced labiodental fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is v.... / |
/v Voiced labiodental fricative The voiced labiodental fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is v.... / |
/v Voiced labiodental fricative The voiced labiodental fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is v.... / |
/v Voiced labiodental fricative The voiced labiodental fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is v.... / |
/v Voiced labiodental fricative The voiced labiodental fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is v.... / |
/v Voiced labiodental fricative The voiced labiodental fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is v.... / |
/v Voiced labiodental fricative The voiced labiodental fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is v.... / |
/v Voiced labiodental fricative The voiced labiodental fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is v.... / |
В | В | В | В | В | В | В | В | В |
| Г г | /g Voiced velar plosive The voiced velar plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is g. Strictly, the IPA symbol is the so-called "opentail G" , though the "looptail G" is... / |
/ɦ/ | /ɦ/ | /ɦ/ | /g Voiced velar plosive The voiced velar plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is g. Strictly, the IPA symbol is the so-called "opentail G" , though the "looptail G" is... / |
/g Voiced velar plosive The voiced velar plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is g. Strictly, the IPA symbol is the so-called "opentail G" , though the "looptail G" is... / |
/g Voiced velar plosive The voiced velar plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is g. Strictly, the IPA symbol is the so-called "opentail G" , though the "looptail G" is... / |
/g Voiced velar plosive The voiced velar plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is g. Strictly, the IPA symbol is the so-called "opentail G" , though the "looptail G" is... / |
/g Voiced velar plosive The voiced velar plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is g. Strictly, the IPA symbol is the so-called "opentail G" , though the "looptail G" is... / |
/g Voiced velar plosive The voiced velar plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is g. Strictly, the IPA symbol is the so-called "opentail G" , though the "looptail G" is... / |
Г | Г | Г | Г | Г | Г | Г | Г | Г |
| Ґ ґ | /g Voiced velar plosive The voiced velar plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is g. Strictly, the IPA symbol is the so-called "opentail G" , though the "looptail G" is... / |
/g Voiced velar plosive The voiced velar plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is g. Strictly, the IPA symbol is the so-called "opentail G" , though the "looptail G" is... / |
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| Ѓ ѓ | /ɟ/ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ғ ғ | /ʁ/ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ӷ ӷ | /ɣ~ʁ/ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ҕ ҕ | Ҕ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Д д | /d/ | /d/ | /d/ | /d/ | /d/ | /d/ | /d/ | /d/ | /d/ | /d/ | Д | Д | Д | Д | Д | Д | Д | Д | Д |
| Ђ ђ | /dʑ/ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Е е | /je/ | /je/ | /e/ | /e/ | /e/ | /e/ | /e/ | /e/ | /e/ | /e/ | Е | Е | Е | Е | Е | Е | Е | Е | Е |
| Ѐ ѐ | /e/ * | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ё ё | /jo/ | /jɔ/ | /jɔ/ | Ё | /jɒ/ | Ё | Ё | Ё | Ё | Ё | Ё | Ё | |||||||
| Ӗ ӗ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Ҽ ҽ | Ҽ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ҿ ҿ | Ҿ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Є є | /je/ | /je/ | |||||||||||||||||
| Ж ж | /ʐ/ | /ʒ/ | /ʒ/ | /ʒ/ | /ʒ/ | /ʒ/ | /ʒ/ | /ʒ/ | Ж | /ʒ/ | Ж | Ж | Ж | Ж | Ж | Ж | Ж | Ж | Ж |
| Ӂ ӂ | /dʒ/ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Җ җ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Ӝ ӝ | Ӝ | ||||||||||||||||||
| З з | /z/ | /z/ | /z/ | /z/ | /z/ | /z/ | /z/ | /z/ | /z~ʒ/ | /z/ | З | З | З | З | З | З | З | З | З |
| Ҙ ҙ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Ӟ ӟ | Ӟ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ӡ ӡ | Ӡ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ѕ ѕ | /dz/ | ||||||||||||||||||
| И и | /i/ | /ɪ/ | /ɪ/ | /i/ | /i/ | /i/ | /i/ | /i/ | /i/ | И | И | И | И | И | И | И | И | И | |
| Ѝ ѝ | /i/ * | /i/ * | |||||||||||||||||
| Ӥ ӥ | Ӥ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ӣ ӣ | /ˈi/ | ||||||||||||||||||
| І і | /i/ | /i/ | /i/ | ||||||||||||||||
| Ї ї | /ji/ | /ji/ | |||||||||||||||||
| Ӏ Ӏ | Ӏ | Ӏ | |||||||||||||||||
| Й й | /j/ | /j/ | /j/ | /j/ | /j/ | /j/ | /j/ | /j/ | Й | Й | Й | Й | Й | Й | Й | Й | Й | ||
| Ҋ ҋ | Ҋ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ј ј | /j/ | /j/ | Ј | ||||||||||||||||
| К к | /k/ | /k/ | /k/ | /k/ | /k/ | /k/ | /k/ | /k/ | /k/ | /k/ | К | К | К | К | К | К | К | * | К |
| Қ қ | /q/ | Қ | |||||||||||||||||
| Ҟ ҟ | Ҟ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ҡ ҡ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Ӄ ӄ | Ӄ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ҝ ҝ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Л л | /l/ | /l/ | /l/ | /l/ | /l/ | /l/ | /l/ | /l/ | /l/ | /l/ | Л | Л | Л | Л | Л | Л | Л | Л | Л |
| Ӆ ӆ | Ӆ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Љ љ | /ʎ/ | /ʎ/ | |||||||||||||||||
| М м | /m/ | /m/ | /m/ | /m/ | /m/ | /m/ | /m/ | /m/ | /m/ | /m/ | М | М | М | М | М | М | М | М | М |
| Ӎ ӎ | Ӎ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Н н | /n/ | /n/ | /n/ | /n/ | /n/ | /n/ | /n/ | /n/ | /n/ | /n/ | Н | Н | Н | Н | Н | Н | Н | Н | Н |
| Ӊ ӊ | Ӊ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ң ң | |||||||||||||||||||
| Ӈ ӈ | Ӈ | Ӈ | Ӈ | ||||||||||||||||
| Ҥ ҥ | /ŋ/ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Њ њ | /ɲ/ | /ɲ/ | |||||||||||||||||
| О о | /o/ | /ɔ/ | /ɔ/ | /ɔ/ | /ɔ/ | /ɔ/ | /ɔ/ | /o/ | /o/ | /o/ | О | О | О | О | О | О | О | О | О |
| Ӧ ӧ | Ӧ | Ӧ | Ӧ | Ӧ | |||||||||||||||
| Ө ө | Ө | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ӫ ӫ | Ӫ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ҩ ҩ | Ҩ | ||||||||||||||||||
| П п | /p/ | /p/ | /p/ | /p/ | /p/ | /p/ | /p/ | /p/ | /p/ | /p/ | П | П | П | П | П | П | П | П | П |
| Ҧ ҧ | Ҧ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Р р | /r/ | /r/ | /r/ | /r/ | /r/ | /r/ | /r/ | /r/ | /r/ | /ɾ/ | Р | Р | Р | Р | Р | Р | Р | Р | Р |
| Ҏ ҏ | Ҏ | ||||||||||||||||||
| С с | /s/ | /s/ | /s/ | /s/ | /s/ | /s/ | /s/ | /s/ | /s~ʃ/ | /s/ | С | С | С | С | С | С | С | С | С |
| Ҫ ҫ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Т т | /t/ | /t/ | /t/ | /t/ | /t/ | /t/ | /t/ | /t/ | /t/ | /t/ | Т | Т | Т | Т | Т | Т | Т | Т | Т |
| Ҭ ҭ | Ҭ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ћ ћ | /tɕ/ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ќ ќ | /c/ | ||||||||||||||||||
| У у | /u/ | /u/ | /u/ | /u/ | /u/ | /u/ | /u/ | /u/ | /u/ | /u/ | У | У | У | У | У | У | У | У | У |
| Ў ў | /w/ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ӳ ӳ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Ӱ ӱ | Ӱ | Ӱ | Ӱ | ||||||||||||||||
| Ӯ ӯ | /ɵ/ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ү ү | |||||||||||||||||||
| Ұ ұ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Ф ф | /f/ | /f/ | /f/ | /f/ | /f/ | /f/ | /f/ | /f/ | /f/ | /f/ | Ф | Ф | Ф | Ф | Ф | Ф | Ф | Ф | Ф |
| Х х | /x/ | /x/ | /x/ | /x/ | /x/ | /x/ | /x/ | /h/ | /χ/ | /χ/ | Х | Х | Х | Х | Х | Х | Х | Х | Х |
| Ҳ ҳ | /h/ | Ҳ | |||||||||||||||||
| Һ һ | Һ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ц ц | /ts/ | /ts/ | /ts/ | /ts/ | /ts/ | /ts/ | /ts/ | /ts/ | /ts/ | Ц | Ц | Ц | Ц | Ц | Ц | Ц | Ц | Ц | Ц |
| Ҵ ҵ | Ҵ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ч ч | /tɕ/ | /tʃ/ | /tʃ/ | /tʃ/ | /tʃ/ | /tʃ/ | /tʃ/ | /tʃ/ | /tʃ/ | /tʃ/ | Ч | Ч | Ч | Ч | Ч | Ч | Ч | Ч | Ч |
| Ӵ ӵ | Ӵ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ҷ ҷ | /dʒ/ | Ҷ | |||||||||||||||||
| Ӌ ӌ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Ҹ ҹ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Џ џ | /dʒ/ | /dʒ/ | Џ | ||||||||||||||||
| Ш ш | /ʂ/ | /ʃ/ | /ʃ/ | /ʃ/ | /ʃ/ | /ʃ/ | /ʃ/ | /ʃ/ | Ш | /ʃ/ | Ш | Ш | Ш | Ш | Ш | Ш | Ш | Ш | Ш |
| Щ щ | /ɕɕ/ | /ʃtʃ/ | /ʃtʃ/ | /ʃt/ | Щ | Щ | Щ | Щ | Щ | Щ | Щ | Щ | Щ | Щ | Щ | ||||
| Ъ ъ | - | - | /ə/ | Ъ | /ʔ/ | Ъ | Ъ | Ъ | Ъ | Ъ | Ъ | Ъ | |||||||
| Ы ы | [ɨ] | /ɨ/ | /ɨ/ | /ɨ/ | /ɨ/ | Ы | Ы | Ы | Ы | Ы | Ы | Ы | Ы | Ы | Ы | ||||
| Ӹ ӹ | Ӹ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ь ь | /ʲ/ | /ʲ/ | /ʲ/ | /ʲ/ | /ʲ/ | /ʲ/ | Ь | Ь | Ь | Ь | Ь | Ь | Ь | Ь | Ь | ||||
| Ҍ ҍ | Ҍ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Э э | /e/ | /e/ | /ə/ | Э | /e/ | Э | Э | Э | Э | Э | Э | Э | Э | ||||||
| Ӭ ӭ | Ӭ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ю ю | /ju/ | /ju/ | /ju/ | /ju/ | /ju/ | /ju/ | Ю | /ju/ | Ю | Ю | Ю | Ю | Ю | Ю | Ю | ||||
| Я я | /ja/ | /ja/ | /ja/ | /ja/ | /ja/ | /ja/ | Я | /ja/ | Я | Я | Я | Я | Я | Я | Я | Я | |||
| Alphabet | ru Russian alphabet The Russian alphabet is a form of the Cyrillic script, developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 10th century AD at the Preslav Literary School... |
be Belarusian alphabet The Belarusian alphabet is based on the Cyrillic script and is derived from the alphabet of the Old Church Slavonic language. The alphabet has existed in its modern form since 1918 and consists of thirty-two letters... |
uk Ukrainian alphabet The Ukrainian alphabet is the set of letters used to write Ukrainian, the official language of Ukraine. It is one of the national variations of the Cyrillic script.... |
rue Rusyn language Rusyn , also known in English as Ruthenian, is an East Slavic language variety spoken by the Rusyns of Central Europe. Some linguists treat it as a distinct language and it has its own ISO 639-3 code; others treat it as a dialect of Ukrainian... |
sr Serbian Cyrillic alphabet The Serbian Cyrillic alphabet is an adaptation of the Cyrillic script for the Serbian language, developed in 1818 by Serbian linguist Vuk Karadžić. It is one of the two standard modern alphabets used to write the Serbian language, the other being Latin... |
bg Bulgarian language Bulgarian is an Indo-European language, a member of the Slavic linguistic group.Bulgarian, along with the closely related Macedonian language, demonstrates several linguistic characteristics that set it apart from all other Slavic languages such as the elimination of case declension, the... |
mk Macedonian alphabet The orthography of Macedonian includes an alphabet , which is an adaptation of the Cyrillic script, as well as language-specific conventions of spelling and punctuation.... |
mo Moldovan alphabet The Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet is a Cyrillic alphabet designed for the Moldovan language in the Soviet Union and used from 1938 to 1989 . Its introduction was decided by the Central Executive Committee of the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic on May 19, 1938... |
os Ossetic language Ossetian , also sometimes called Ossete, is an East Iranian language spoken in Ossetia, a region on the slopes of the Caucasus Mountains.... |
tg Tajik alphabet The Tajik language has been written in three alphabets over the course of its history: an adaptation of the Arabic script , an adaptation of the Latin script, and an adaptation of the Cyrillic script... |
sjd | mhr Mari language The Mari language , spoken by more than 600,000 people, belongs to the Uralic language family. It is spoken primarily in the Mari Republic of the Russian Federation as well as in the area along the Vyatka river basin and eastwards to the Urals... |
mrj Mari language The Mari language , spoken by more than 600,000 people, belongs to the Uralic language family. It is spoken primarily in the Mari Republic of the Russian Federation as well as in the area along the Vyatka river basin and eastwards to the Urals... |
udm Udmurt language Udmurt is an Uralic language, part of the Permic subgroup, spoken by the Udmurt natives of the Russian constituent republic of Udmurtia, where it is coofficial with Russian. It is written in the Cyrillic script with five additional characters. Together with Komi and Komi-Permyak languages, it... |
kca Khanty language Khanty or Xanty language, also known previously as the Ostyak language, is a language of the Khant peoples. It is spoken in Khanty-Mansi and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous okrugs, as well as in Aleksandrovsky and Kargosoksky districts of Tomsk Oblast in Russia... |
yrk Nenets language The Nenets language refers to either of two languages spoken in northern Russia by the Nenets people. They are often treated as being two dialects of the same language, but they are very different and mutual intelligibility is very low... |
ab Abkhaz language Abkhaz is a Northwest Caucasian language spoken mainly by the Abkhaz people. It is the official language of Abkhazia where around 100,000 people speak it. Furthermore, it is spoken by thousands of members of the Abkhazian diaspora in Turkey, Georgia's autonomous republic of Adjara, Syria, Jordan... |
kbd Kabardian language The Kabardian language, also known as East Circassian , is a Northwest Caucasian language, closely related to the Adyghe language. It is spoken mainly in the Russian republics of Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia and in Turkey and the Middle East... |
ce Chechen language The Chechen language is spoken by more than 1.5 million people, mostly in Chechnya and by Chechen people elsewhere. It is a member of the Northeast Caucasian languages.-Classification:... |
| Language families | Turkic languages Turkic languages The Turkic languages constitute a language family of at least thirty five languages, spoken by Turkic peoples across a vast area from Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean to Siberia and Western China, and are considered to be part of the proposed Altaic language family.Turkic languages are spoken... |
Other Altaic Altaic languages Altaic is a proposed language family that includes the Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, and Japonic language families and the Korean language isolate. These languages are spoken in a wide arc stretching from northeast Asia through Central Asia to Anatolia and eastern Europe... |
Chi. Chinese language The Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages... |
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| Alphabet | az Azerbaijani alphabet In the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Azerbaijani alphabet refers to a Latin alphabet used for writing the Azerbaijani language. This superseded a previous versions based on Cyrillic and Arabic scripts.... |
tk Turkmen language Turkmen is the national language of Turkmenistan... |
kk | ky Kyrgyz alphabet The Kyrgyz alphabets are the alphabets used to write the Kyrgyz language. The Kyrgyz language uses the following alphabets:* The Cyrillic script is officially used in the Republic of Kyrgyzstan... |
krc Karachay-Balkar language The Karachay-Balkar language is a Turkic language spoken by the Karachays and Balkars. It is divided into two dialects: Karachay-Baksan-Chegem which pronounces two phonemes as and , and Balkar, which pronounces the corresponding phonemes as and .- Alphabet :Modern Karachay-Balkar Cyrillic... |
ba Bashkir language The Bashkir language is a Turkic language, and is the language of the Bashkirs. It is co-official with Russian in the Republic of Bashkortostan.-Speakers:... |
tt Tatar language The Tatar language , or more specifically Kazan Tatar, is a Turkic language spoken by the Tatars of historical Kazan Khanate, including modern Tatarstan and Bashkiria... |
alt Altay language Altay is a language of the Turkic group of languages. It is an official language of Altai Republic, Russia. The language was called Oyrot prior to 1948. There were ca... |
kjh Khakas language Khakas is a Turkic language spoken by the Khakas people, who mainly live in the southern Siberian Khakas Republic, or Khakassia, in Russia... |
sah | tyv Tuvan language Tuvan , also known as Tuvinian, Tyvan or Tuvin, is a Turkic language spoken in the Republic of Tuva in south-central Siberia in Russia. The language has borrowed a great number of roots from the Mongolian language and more recently from the Russian language... |
uz Uzbek language Uzbek is a Turkic language and the official language of Uzbekistan. It has about 25.5 million native speakers, and it is spoken by the Uzbeks in Uzbekistan and elsewhere in Central Asia... |
ug Uyghur language Uyghur , formerly known as Eastern Turk, is a Turkic language with 8 to 11 million speakers, spoken primarily by the Uyghur people in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of Western China. Significant communities of Uyghur-speakers are located in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, and various other... |
cv Chuvash language Chuvash is a Turkic language spoken in central Russia, primarily in the Chuvash Republic and adjacent areas. It is the only surviving member of the Oghur branch of Turkic languages.... |
evn Evenk language Evenki is the largest member of the northern group of Tungusic languages, a group which also includes Even, Negidal, and Oroqen language... |
bua Buryat language Buryat is a Mongolic variety spoken by the Buryats that is either classified as a language or as a major dialect group of Mongolian. The majority of Buryat speakers live in Russia along the northern border of Mongolia where it is an official language in the Buryat Republic, Ust-Orda Buryatia and... |
mn Mongolian language The Mongolian language is the official language of Mongolia and the best-known member of the Mongolic language family. The number of speakers across all its dialects may be 5.2 million, including the vast majority of the residents of Mongolia and many of the Mongolian residents of the Inner... |
xal Kalmyk language The Kalmyk language , or Russian Oirat, is the native speech of the Kalmyk people of the Republic of Kalmykia, a federal subject of the Russian Federation. In Russia, it is the normative form of the Oirat language , which belongs to the Mongolic language family... |
dng Dungan language The Dungan language is a Sinitic language spoken by the Dungan of Central Asia, an ethnic group related to the Hui people of China.-History:... |
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| В в | В | В | В | В | В | В | В | В | В | В | В | В | В | В | В | В | В | В | В |
| Г г | Г | Г | Г | Г | Г | Г | Г | Г | Г | Г | Г | Г | Г | Г | Г | Г | Г | Г | Г |
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| Е е | Е | Е | Е | Е | Е | Е | Е | Е | Е | Е | Е | Е | Е | Е | Е | Е | Е | Е | Е |
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| Ё ё | Ё | Ё | Ё | Ё | Ё | Ё | Ё | Ё | Ё | Ё | Ё | Ё | Ё | Ё | Ё | Ё | Ё | ||
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| З з | З | З | З | З | З | З | З | З | З | З | З | З | З | З | З | З | З | З | З |
| Ҙ ҙ | Ҙ | ||||||||||||||||||
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| И и | И | И | И | И | И | И | И | И | И | И | И | И | И | И | И | И | И | И | И |
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| І і | /ɪ/ | І | |||||||||||||||||
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| Й й | Й | Й | Й | Й | Й | Й | Й | Й | Й | Й | Й | Й | Й | Й | Й | Й | Й | Й | |
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| Ј ј | Ј | Ј | |||||||||||||||||
| К к | К | К | К | К | К | К | К | К | К | К | К | К | К | К | К | К | К | К | К |
| Қ қ | Қ | Қ | Қ | ||||||||||||||||
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| Ҡ ҡ | Ҡ | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Ҝ ҝ | Ҝ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Л л | Л | Л | Л | Л | Л | Л | Л | Л | Л | Л | Л | Л | Л | Л | Л | Л | Л | Л | Л |
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| М м | М | М | М | М | М | М | М | М | М | М | М | М | М | М | М | М | М | М | М |
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| Н н | Н | Н | Н | Н | Н | Н | Н | Н | Н | Н | Н | Н | Н | Н | Н | Н | Н | Н | Н |
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| Ң ң | Ң | Ң | Ң | Ң | Ң | Ң | Ң | Ң | Ң | Ң | |||||||||
| Ӈ ӈ | Ӈ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ҥ ҥ | /ŋ/ | /ŋ/ | |||||||||||||||||
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| О о | О | О | О | О | О | О | О | О | О | О | О | О | О | О | О | О | О | О | О |
| Ӧ ӧ | Ӧ | Ӧ | |||||||||||||||||
| Ө ө | Ө | Ө | Ө | Ө | Ө | Ө | Ө | Ө | Ө | Ө | Ө | Ө | |||||||
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| П п | П | П | П | П | П | П | П | П | П | П | П | П | П | П | П | П | П | П | П |
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| Р р | Р | Р | Р | Р | Р | Р | Р | Р | Р | Р | Р | Р | Р | Р | Р | Р | Р | Р | Р |
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| С с | С | С | С | С | С | С | С | С | С | С | С | С | С | С | С | С | С | С | С |
| Ҫ ҫ | Ҫ | Ҫ | |||||||||||||||||
| Т т | Т | Т | Т | Т | Т | Т | Т | Т | Т | Т | Т | Т | Т | Т | Т | Т | Т | Т | Т |
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| У у | У | У | У | У | У | У | У | У | У | У | У | У | У | У | У | У | У | У | У |
| Ў ў | Ў | Ў | Ў | ||||||||||||||||
| Ӳ ӳ | Ӳ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ӱ ӱ | Ӱ | Ӱ | |||||||||||||||||
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| Ү ү | Ү | Ү | Ү | Ү | Ү | Ү | Ү | Ү | Ү | Ү | Ү | Ү | Ү | ||||||
| Ұ ұ | Ұ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ф ф | Ф | Ф | Ф | Ф | Ф | Ф | Ф | Ф | Ф | Ф | Ф | Ф | Ф | Ф | Ф | Ф | Ф | Ф | |
| Х х | Х | Х | Х | Х | Х | Х | Х | Х | Х | Х | Х | Х | Х | Х | Х | Х | Х | Х | Х |
| Ҳ ҳ | Ҳ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Һ һ | Һ | Һ | Һ | Һ | Һ | Һ | Һ | Һ | |||||||||||
| Ц ц | Ц | Ц | Ц | Ц | Ц | Ц | Ц | Ц | Ц | Ц | Ц | Ц | Ц | Ц | Ц | Ц | Ц | ||
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| Ч ч | Ч | Ч | Ч | Ч | Ч | Ч | Ч | Ч | Ч | Ч | Ч | Ч | Ч | Ч | Ч | Ч | Ч | Ч | Ч |
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| Ҹ ҹ | Ҹ | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Ш ш | Ш | Ш | Ш | Ш | Ш | Ш | Ш | Ш | Ш | Ш | Ш | Ш | Ш | Ш | Ш | Ш | Ш | Ш | Ш |
| Щ щ | Щ | Щ | Щ | Щ | Щ | Щ | Щ | Щ | Щ | Щ | Щ | Щ | Щ | Щ | Щ | ||||
| Ъ ъ | Ъ | Ъ | Ъ | Ъ | Ъ | Ъ | Ъ | Ъ | Ъ | Ъ | Ъ | Ъ | Ъ | Ъ | Ъ | Ъ | |||
| Ы ы | Ы | Ы | Ы | Ы | Ы | Ы | Ы | Ы | Ы | Ы | Ы | Ы | Ы | Ы | Ы | Ы | Ы | ||
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| Ь ь | Ь | Ь | Ь | Ь | Ь | Ь | Ь | Ь | Ь | Ь | Ь | Ь | Ь | Ь | Ь | Ь | Ь | ||
| Ҍ ҍ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Э э | Э | Э | Э | Э | Э | Э | Э | Э | Э | Э | Э | Э | Э | Э | Э | Э | Э | Э | |
| Ӭ ӭ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Ю ю | Ю | Ю | Ю | Ю | Ю | Ю | Ю | Ю | Ю | Ю | Ю | Ю | Ю | Ю | Ю | Ю | Ю | Ю | |
| Я я | Я | Я | Я | Я | Я | Я | Я | Я | Я | Я | Я | Я | Я | Я | Я | Я | Я | Я | |
| Alphabet | az Azerbaijani alphabet In the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Azerbaijani alphabet refers to a Latin alphabet used for writing the Azerbaijani language. This superseded a previous versions based on Cyrillic and Arabic scripts.... |
tk Turkmen language Turkmen is the national language of Turkmenistan... |
kk | ky Kyrgyz alphabet The Kyrgyz alphabets are the alphabets used to write the Kyrgyz language. The Kyrgyz language uses the following alphabets:* The Cyrillic script is officially used in the Republic of Kyrgyzstan... |
krc Karachay-Balkar language The Karachay-Balkar language is a Turkic language spoken by the Karachays and Balkars. It is divided into two dialects: Karachay-Baksan-Chegem which pronounces two phonemes as and , and Balkar, which pronounces the corresponding phonemes as and .- Alphabet :Modern Karachay-Balkar Cyrillic... |
ba Bashkir language The Bashkir language is a Turkic language, and is the language of the Bashkirs. It is co-official with Russian in the Republic of Bashkortostan.-Speakers:... |
tt Tatar language The Tatar language , or more specifically Kazan Tatar, is a Turkic language spoken by the Tatars of historical Kazan Khanate, including modern Tatarstan and Bashkiria... |
alt Altay language Altay is a language of the Turkic group of languages. It is an official language of Altai Republic, Russia. The language was called Oyrot prior to 1948. There were ca... |
kjh Khakas language Khakas is a Turkic language spoken by the Khakas people, who mainly live in the southern Siberian Khakas Republic, or Khakassia, in Russia... |
sah | tyv Tuvan language Tuvan , also known as Tuvinian, Tyvan or Tuvin, is a Turkic language spoken in the Republic of Tuva in south-central Siberia in Russia. The language has borrowed a great number of roots from the Mongolian language and more recently from the Russian language... |
uz Uzbek language Uzbek is a Turkic language and the official language of Uzbekistan. It has about 25.5 million native speakers, and it is spoken by the Uzbeks in Uzbekistan and elsewhere in Central Asia... |
ug Uyghur language Uyghur , formerly known as Eastern Turk, is a Turkic language with 8 to 11 million speakers, spoken primarily by the Uyghur people in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of Western China. Significant communities of Uyghur-speakers are located in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, and various other... |
cv Chuvash language Chuvash is a Turkic language spoken in central Russia, primarily in the Chuvash Republic and adjacent areas. It is the only surviving member of the Oghur branch of Turkic languages.... |
evn Evenk language Evenki is the largest member of the northern group of Tungusic languages, a group which also includes Even, Negidal, and Oroqen language... |
bua Buryat language Buryat is a Mongolic variety spoken by the Buryats that is either classified as a language or as a major dialect group of Mongolian. The majority of Buryat speakers live in Russia along the northern border of Mongolia where it is an official language in the Buryat Republic, Ust-Orda Buryatia and... |
mn Mongolian language The Mongolian language is the official language of Mongolia and the best-known member of the Mongolic language family. The number of speakers across all its dialects may be 5.2 million, including the vast majority of the residents of Mongolia and many of the Mongolian residents of the Inner... |
xal Kalmyk language The Kalmyk language , or Russian Oirat, is the native speech of the Kalmyk people of the Republic of Kalmykia, a federal subject of the Russian Federation. In Russia, it is the normative form of the Oirat language , which belongs to the Mongolic language family... |
dng Dungan language The Dungan language is a Sinitic language spoken by the Dungan of Central Asia, an ethnic group related to the Hui people of China.-History:... |
See also
- Cyrillic alphabetCyrillic alphabetThe Cyrillic script or azbuka is an alphabetic writing system developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 10th century AD at the Preslav Literary School...
- Cyrillic digraphsCyrillic digraphsThe Cyrillic alphabet family contains a large number of specially treated two-letter combinations, or digraphs, but few of these are used in Slavic languages. In a few alphabets, trigraphs and even the occasional tetragraph are used....
- Cyrillic characters in UnicodeCyrillic characters in UnicodeThe Cyrillic script is encoded in four blocks in Unicode, all in BMP:* Cyrillic: , 256 characters* Cyrillic Supplement: , 48 characters* Cyrillic Extended-A: , 32 characters* Cyrillic Extended-B: , 96 characters...
- Languages using CyrillicLanguages using CyrillicThis is a list of languages that have been written in the Cyrillic script at one time or another. See also early Cyrillic alphabet.- Indo-European languages :* Indo-Iranian languages**Indo-Aryan languages...
- List of Latin letters
- Alphabets derived from the LatinAlphabets derived from the LatinA Latin alphabet is an alphabetical writing system that uses letters of the original Roman Latin alphabet and often various extensions, the Latin script...