Hello,
I have notes about languages of former USSR included in the list.
In 1930th almost all of them have been written in Latin script known as 'Unified New Turkic Alphabet',.or in its derivatives (Common Northern Alphabet etc). It should be emphasized that these Latin-based alphabets contain a number of characters which are not yet encoded in Unicode.
Later these facts was clearly expurgated from publications. For example, you can't find full information about Kazakh (Latin) alphabet even in Kazakh Encyclopedia (It is 14 volumes printed in 1970th). I have got two rare books containing alphabet tables:
- M.I.Isaev. Yazykovoe stroitel'stvo v SSSR=Linguistic building in the USSR. - Moscow, 1979,
- R.S.Gilyarevsky, V.S.Grivnin. Opredelitel' yazykov mira po pis'mennostyam=Handbook for recognition of world languages by script. - 3rd edition. - Moscow, 1965.
There are differences in dates of alphabet transitions in both books, and I skipped them (I hope verify them and publish later with alphabet tables). But chronological orders are the same:
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Language
Scripts in chronological order
Abaza
Latin, Cyrillic
Abkhaz
Cyrillic, Latin, Georgian, Cyrillic
Adygei
Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic
Altai
Cyrillic, Latin, Cyrillic
Avar
Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic
Azerbaijani (Azeri)
Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic, ? Latin
Balkar
Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic
Bashkir
Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic
Buryat
Mongolian, Latin, Cyrillic
Chechen
Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic
Chukchi
Latin, Cyrillic
Crimean Tatar
Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic, ? Latin
Dargwa
Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic
Dungan
Arabic, Cyrillic
Evenki
Latin, Cyrillic
Ingush
Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic
Kabardian and Cherkessian
Cyrillic&Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic
Kalmyk
Mongolian, Cyrillic, Latin, Cyrillic
Karachay
Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic
Karakalpak
Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic
Karelian
Cyrillic
Kazakh
Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic
Khakass
Cyrillic, Latin, Cyrillic
Khanty
Latin, Cyrillic
Kirghiz
Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic
Komi
Cyrillic, Latin, Cyrillic
Koryak
Latin, Cyrillic
Kumyk
Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic
Kurdish
Arabic, Armenian, Latin, Cyrillic
Lak
Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic
Lezghian
Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic
Mansi
Latin, Cyrillic
Nanai
Latin, Cyrillic
Nenets
Latin, Cyrillic
Nivkh
Latin, Cyrillic
Nogai
Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic
Ossetic
Georgian&Cyrillic, Armenian, Latin, Cyrillic
Sami
Cyrillic, Latin
Selkup
Latin, Cyrillic
Shor
Cyrillic, Latin, Cyrillic
Tabasaran
Latin, Cyrillic
Tajik
Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic
Tat
Cyrillic
Tatar
Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic, ? Latin
Turkmen
Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic, ? Latin
Tuva
Mongolian, Latin, Cyrillic
Udekhe
Latin, Cyrillic
Uighur
Uighur, Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic
Uzbek
Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic, ? Latin
Yakut
Cyrillic, Latin, Cyrillic
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Cherkessian, Crimean Tatar, Kumyk, Nivkh are not yet presented in the list. Azerbaijani and Azeri are the same language.What is 'Netets'?
One note about [3] abbreviation. Kazakh, Kirghiz, Uighur in China, Iran is written in Arabic nowadays.
Best regards,
Kairat A. Rakhim
rakhim@aport2000.ru
Public Library of Karaganda,
Kazakhstan
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