Non-Slavic Languages in Cyrillic script
Over the last two centuries, varieties of the Cyrillic script not only have been used to write Slavic languages, such as Belarusian, Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian, but have also been applied to the writing of a number of non-Slavic languages. The following list enumerates, in alphabetical order, the non-Slavic languages that have been written in Cyrillic and indicates, where known, the years in which Cyrillic was first introduced to write them (or, in some cases, the sources through which they were introduced). The alphabets of some of these languages have undergone orthographic reform over the years: in such cases, the years in which reforms were carried out are enumerated after the initial date of introduction.
Information about these languages and dates is taken from the romanization tables for more than 145 languages and dialects compiled and edited in the 1990s by Randall K. Barry of the Library of Congress. Today, these tables are available via the Cataloging Distribution Service of the Library of Congress at http://www.loc.gov/catdir/ cpso/romanization/nonslav.pdf, as well as via Cataloger’s Desktop.
Note that the romanization of Cyrillic for certain non-Slavic languages are covered separately in these languages' own tables.
Azerbaijani (item # 6 in the list below) includes Cyrillic at the end of its romanization table, here: https://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/romanization/azerbaij.pdf (note: copy also available at end of page)
Romanian (item # 62) in Cyrillic is in this dedicated table: https://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/romanization/romanian.pdf (note: copy also available at end of page)
Uzbek (item #78) includes Cyrillic at the end of its romanization table, here: https://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/romanization/uzbek.pdf (note: copy also available at end of page)
For Moldovan/Moldavian, Romanian using the Cyrillic script during Soviet times, see "Moldovan" in the Combined chart for non-Slavic languages in Cyrillic script for guidance (note: copy also available at end of page).
Abazin (1938)
Abkhaz (1954)
Adygei (1938)
Altai (1845,1922,1938,1944)
Avaric (1938)
Azerbaijani (1940)
Balkar (1936,1939)
Bashkir (1939)
Buriat (1939)
Chechen (1862, 1908, 1938)
Chukchi (1958)
Chuvash (Missionary)
Chuvash (1872, modified 1923, 1926, 1933, 1938)
Dargwa (Uslar)
Dargwa (1938)
Dungan (1952)
Even (1937)
Evenki (1937, 1958)
Gagauz-Bulgaria
Gagauz-USSR. (1957)
Gilyak
Ingush (1938)
Kabardian (1936)
Kalmyk (1927, 1938, 1957)
Kara-Kalpak (revised ca. 1947, 1957)
Karachay (1938)
Karachay-Balkar
Karelian
Kazakh (1940)
Khakass (1893 missionary, 1924-1927, 1939)
Khanty (1937)
Khanty-Shuryshkary Dialect (1952)
Khanty-Kazym Dialect (1952)
Khanty Surgut Dialect (1952)
Khanty Vakh Dialect (1952)
Komi (1938)
Komi (Molodtsov) (1919)
Komi-Permyak (Missionary)
Komi-Permyak (1938)
Koryak
Kumyk (1938)
Kurdish (1946)
Kyrgyz (1940)
Lak (1864, 1938)
Lezgian (1938)
Lezgian (Uslar)
Lithuanian
Mansi (1937, 1958)
Mari — Meadow Dialect (Missionary, 1870s and early Soviet, 1938)
Mari — Mountain Dialect (Missionary, 1870s and early Soviet, 1938)
Moldovan (Early and 1924, 1937)
Mongolian (1941-1945)
Mordvin — Erzya Dialect (Early missionary, Later missionary, Early Soviet & 1938)
Mordvin — Moksha Dialect (Missionary, 1923, 1938)
Nanai
Nenets (1937, 1958)
Nogai (1938)
Ossetic — Digor Dialect (1938)
Ossetic — Iron Dialect (1938)
Romani — Bulgaria
Romani — U.S.S.R
Romanian (before the 1860s)
Sami (Missionary, 1937)
Selkup (1936)
Shor (Missionary, 1927, 1938)
Syriac (Modern)
Tabasaran (1938)
Tajik (1940)
Tat
Tatar (1938)
Tatar — Crimea
Tatar — Kryashen
Turkmen (1940)
Tuvinian
Udekhe
Udmurt (Missionary, Early Soviet, 1937)
Uighur (1947)
Uzbek (1940)
Yakut (1819, 1851 Böhtlingk, 1839)
Yuit
Azerbaijani LC romanization table (SCM local copy)
Non-Slavic Languages in Cyrillic Script LC romanization table (SCM local copy)
Romanian in Cyrillic LC romanization table (SCM local copy)
Uzbek LC romanization table (SCM local copy)
Revised: Feb. 2016