Example text
Все люди рождаются свободными и равными в своём достоинстве и правах
Rendered using a Noto web font where available; falls back to system fonts.
Writing Direction
Direction
Left-to-right
RTL
No
Vertical tradition
None / unusual
Source
Unicode CLDR scriptMetadata.txt + app-maintained overrides
Cyrillic is normally written left-to-right horizontally.
Script Properties
Family
Cyrillic / GreekGeographic origin
Eastern Europe / Central Asia
Usage status
Living script
OpenType tag
cyrlDerived from the Greek uncial script, created by Saints Cyril and Methodius (via Glagolitic) and further developed by their disciples. Used for Russian, Ukrainian, Serbian, Bulgarian, and many Central Asian and Siberian languages.
Related Scripts
Unicode Blocks
Cyrillic
U+0400Cyrillic SupplementU+0500Cyrillic Extended-CU+1C80Cyrillic Extended-AU+2DE0Cyrillic Extended-BU+A6405 Unicode blocks contain Cyrillic characters. Browse all Unicode blocks →
The lists below count source attestation, not current or official usage. A language can appear under several scripts. Sources, denominators and limitations.
Language-specific characters and typing resources
A script does not have one alphabet shared by every language. Compare these directly sourced CLDR locale repertoires.
- Abkhazian: characters and keyboards
- Azerbaijani: characters and keyboards
- Bashkir: characters and keyboards
- Belarusian: characters and keyboards
- Bosnian: characters and keyboards
- Buriat: characters and keyboards
- Bulgarian: characters and keyboards
- Chechen: characters and keyboards
- Church Slavic: characters and keyboards
- Chuvash: characters and keyboards
- Kara-Kalpak: characters and keyboards
- Kazakh: characters and keyboards
- Kirghiz: characters and keyboards
- Moksha: characters and keyboards
- Macedonian: characters and keyboards
- Mongolian: characters and keyboards
- Erzya: characters and keyboards
- Iron Ossetic: characters and keyboards
- Russian: characters and keyboards
- Yakut: characters and keyboards
- Serbian: characters and keyboards
- Tatar: characters and keyboards
- Tajik: characters and keyboards
- Tuvinian: characters and keyboards
- Ukrainian: characters and keyboards
- Uzbek: characters and keyboards
Multiple-source attestation (MAIN)165
Abkhazian
abk
Abaza
abq
Adyghe
ady
Aghul
agx
Akhvakh
akv
Aleut
ale
Alutor
alr
Southern Altai
alt
Andi
ani
Archi
aqc
Northern Altai
atv
Avaric
ava
Azerbaijani
aze
Bashkir
bak
Belarusian
bel
Balkan Gagauz Turkish
bgx
Bukharic
bhh
Bosnian
bos
Botlikh
bph
Buriat
bua
Bulgarian
bul
Mongolia Buriat
bxm
Russia Buriat
bxr
China Buriat
bxu
Chechen
che
Mari (Russia)
chm
Church Slavic
chu
Chuvash
chv
Chamalal
cji
Shor
cjs
Chukot
ckt
Chulym
clw
Montenegrin
cnr
Crimean Tatar
crh
Dargwa
dar
Dido
ddo
Dolgan
dlg
Dungan
dng
Daur
dta
Pacific Gulf Yupik
ems
Forest Enets
enf
Tundra Enets
enh
Central Siberian Yupik
ess
Even
eve
Evenki
evn
Gagauz
gag
Ghodoberi
gdo
Hinukh
gin
Nanai
gld
Serbo-Croatian
hbs
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Single-source attestation (AUX)20
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
aiiSingle source
South Azerbaijani
azbSingle source
Western Balochi
bgnSingle source
Burushaski
bskSingle source
Mandarin Chinese
cmnSingle source
Seselwa Creole French
crsSingle source
Dusun Deyah
dunSingle source
Modern Greek (1453-)
ellSingle source
Ili Turki
iliSingle source
Northern Kurdish
kmrSingle source
Karelian
krlSingle source
Standard Latvian
lvsSingle source
Livvi
oloSingle source
Megleno Romanian
ruqSingle source
Xibe
sjoSingle source
Salar
slrSingle source
Northern Sami
smeSingle source
Skolt Sami
smsSingle source
Svan
svaSingle source
Turkish
turSingle source