Languages using Cyrillic - Definition and Overview

This is a list of languages that have been written in the Cyrillic alphabet at one time or another. See also early Cyrillic alphabet.

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

• Caucasian languages
  • Abaza
  • Abkhaz
  • Adyghe
  • Avar
  • Chechen (1940–1991; 2000–)
  • Dargwa
  • Kabardian
  • Lak
  • Lezgian
  • Tabassaran

• Chinese languages
  • Dungan

• Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages
  • Chukchi
  • Koryak

• Uralic languages
  • Karelian (1940–1991)
  • Khanty
  • Mansi
  • Komi
    • Komi-Zyrian
    • Komi-Permyak
  • Mari
  • Erzya
  • Kildin Sami
  • Moksha
  • Udmurt
  • Nenets
  • Selkup

• Indo-Aryan languages
  • Romany (in Serbia and Montenegro and former USSR)

• Indo-Iranian languages
  • Kurdish (living in former USSR)
  • Ossetic
  • Tajik
  • Tat (Judeo-Tat)

• Mongolian languages
  • Buryat
  • Kalmyk
  • Mongolian
  • Oyirad of Altai

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

• Tungusic languages
  • Evenk
  • Nanai
  • Udihe (Udekhe)

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

• Other languages
  • Aisor (Assyrian Neo-Aramaic)

• Constructed languages
  • Lingua Franca Nova
  • Slovio

• Fictional languages
  • Brutopian