Cyrillic alphabets
Channel: the aleatoric learning channel
Date: 13/10/2021

All of the peoples of the former Soviet Union who had been using an Arabic or other Asian script also adopted Cyrillic alphabets, and during the Great Purge in the late 1930s, all of the Latin alphabets of the peoples of the Soviet Union were switched to Cyrillic as well. The following table lists the Cyrillic letters which are used in the alphabets of most of the national languages which use a Cyrillic alphabet. The Belarusian alphabet The Belarusian alphabet displays the following features: Ge represents a voiced velar fricative /ɣ/. Yo /jo/ I, also known as the dotted I or decimal I, resembles the Latin letter I. Unlike Russian and Ukrainian, "И" is not used. The Montenegrin alphabet differs from Serbian in the following ways: Between Ze and I is the letter З́, which represents /ʑ/. It is written   in the corresponding Montenegrin Latin alphabet, previously written ⟨Zj zj⟩ or ⟨Žj žj⟩. Uralic languages using the Cyrillic script include: Finnic: Karelian until 1921 and 1937-1940; Veps; Votic Kildin Sami in Russia Komi; Permyak; Yodzyak) Udmurt Khanty Mansi Samoyedic: Enets; Yurats; Nenets since 1937; Nganasan; Kamassian; Koibal; Mator; Selkup Mari, since the 19th century Mordvin, since the 18th century Other: Merya; Muromian; Meshcherian The Karelian language was written in the Cyrillic script in various forms until 1940 when publication in Karelian ceased in favor of Finnish, except for Tver Karelian, written in a Latin alphabet. In 1989 publication began again in the other Karelian dialects and Latin alphabets were used, in some cases with the addition of Cyrillic letters such as ь. Over the last century, the alphabet used to write Kildin Sami has changed three times: from Cyrillic to Latin and back again to Cyrillic. The Komi-Permyak alphabet: Meadow Mari alphabet: Hill Mari alphabet Kurds in the former Soviet Union use a Cyrillic alphabet: The Ossetic language has officially used the Cyrillic script since 1937. The Moldovan language used varieties of the Romanian Cyrillic alphabet in 1812-1918, and the Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet in 1924-1932 and 1938-1989. Latin is going to be the only used alphabet in 2022, alongside the modified Arabic alphabet. Used along with Uyghur Arabic alphabet, " New Script ", and modern Uyghur Latin alphabet.