If you are working with languages such as Russian, Ukrainian, Macedonian or other languages more closely related to Russian, you may discover additional fonts which support the the characters you need even if they don’t include all Cyrillic characters. Kodeks German Medieval Slavicists Server.Microsoft: Arial/Arial Unicode, Times New Roman, Calibri, Cambria.The most recent version of these fonts support a The fonts below support a wide range of characters including historical characters and those from Central Asian Cyrillic languages. You can see additonal examples on the Cyrillic chart page. Test CharactersĮxamples of non-Russian Cyrillic characters are shown in the table below.

A font that supports Russian may not support all the extra Cyrillic characters. If you are working with a language other than Russian, it is important that have access to fonts which include these characters. The Cyrillic script as a totality includes letters not used in Russian, but which are important for other languages. Font Recommendations Extra Cyrillic Letters Note: Some languages in Central Asia can be written in either Cyrillic, the Western Latin alphabet or even the Arabic script depending on the location of a particular speaker community. Many are Turkic languages, but the list covers a wide variety of language families including Caucausian, Iranian, Uralic, Mongolian and multiple indigenous languages of Siberia. However, Cyrillic is also used for non-Slavic Central Asian languages such Uzbek, Kazakh, Kyrghiz, Azer and others. Some languages include Slavic languages like Ukrainian, Belarussian, Bulgarian, Macedonian sometimes Serbian. Not surprisingly, many languages that were part of the former Soviet Union are written in the Cyrillic alphabet or use Cyrillic as one of the possible available scripts.

Cyrillic Alphabet Unicode Chart (New Page).

Russian Alphabet Font