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.

Distribution of the Cyrillic alphabet worldwide. The dark green shows the countries that use Cyrillic as the one main script; the lighter green those that use Cyrillic alongside another official script.

• Indo-Iranian languages
• *Indo-Aryan languages
• **Romani (in Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria and former USSR)
• *Iranian languages
• **Kurdish (living in former USSR)
• **Ossetic (since 18th century, modern alphabet since 1938)
• **Tajik
• **Tat (Judeo-Tat)

• Romance languages
• *Romanian (up to the 19th century, and in Moldova from 1940–89; see Moldavian)
• *Ladino in occasional Bulgarian Sephardic publications.

• Slavic languages
• *Old Church Slavonic
• *Church Slavonic
• *Belarusian
• *Bulgarian
• *Macedonian
• *Russian
• *Rusyn
• *Serbian
• *Ukrainian

(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

• Chinese languages
• *Dungan (since 1953)

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

• Buryat
• Kalmyk
• Mongolian

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

• Altay
• Azeri (1939–91)
• Balkar
• Bashkir
• Chuvash
• Crimean Tatar (1938–91)
• Gagauz (1957-1990s)
• Kazakh
• Karachay
• Karakalpak (1940s–1990s)
• Khakas
• Kumyk
• Kyrgyz
• Nogai
• Tatar (since 1939; also with Roman since 2000)
• Turkmen (1940–94)
• Tuvan
• Uzbek (1941–98)
• Yakut

• 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

• Aleut (in 19th century)
• Siberian Eskimo (Yuit)

• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (Aisor)

Other languages

• Russian sign language (uses the Cyrillic alphabet via the Russian Manual Alphabet)
• Constructed languages
• *International auxiliary languages
• **Lingua Franca Nova
• **Slovio
• **Козеине
• **Дайанувукф
• *Fictional languages
• **Brutopian (Donald Duck stories)
• **Syldavian (Tintin)

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