It is the designated national script in various Slavic, Turkic, Mongolic, Uralic, Caucasian and Iranic-speaking countries in Southeastern Europe, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, North Asia, and East Asia, and used by many other minority languages.Īs of 2019, around 250 million people in Eurasia use Cyrillic as the official script for their national languages, with Russia accounting for about half of them. The Cyrillic script ( / s ɪ ˈ r ɪ l ɪ k/ sih- RIL-ik), Slavonic script or simply Slavic script is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. Excerpt from the manuscript 'Bdinski Zbornik'. For the distinction between, / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.Įxample of the Cyrillic script. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).
