Languages using Cyrillic

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Languages using Cyrillic

This is a list of languages that have been written in the Cyrillic alphabet

Cyrillic alphabet

The Cyrillic alphabet is a family of alphabets, subsets of which are used by five Slavic languages national languages as well as non-Slavic . It is also used by many other languages of Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Siberia and other languages in the past....
at one time or another. See also early Cyrillic alphabet

Early Cyrillic alphabet

The old Cyrillic alphabet was a writing system developed in the First Bulgarian Empire in the tenth century to write the Old Church Slavonic liturgical language....
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This is a list of languages that have been written in the Cyrillic alphabet

Cyrillic alphabet

Early Cyrillic alphabet

The old Cyrillic alphabet was a writing system developed in the First Bulgarian Empire in the tenth century to write the Old Church Slavonic liturgical language....
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Indo-European languages

Indo-Iranian languages
Indo-Iranian languages

The Indo-Iranian language group constitutes the easternmost extant branch of the Indo-European languages family of languages. It consists of three language groups: the Indo-Aryan languages , Iranian languages and Nuristani languages....

Indo-Aryan languages
Indo-Aryan languages

The Indo-Aryan languages are a branch of the Indo-European languages family.SIL International in a 2005 estimate counted a total of 209 varieties, the largest in terms of native speakers being Hindustani language , Bangla language , Punjabi language , Marathi , Gujarati language , Nepali language , Oriya language , Sindhi language , Sinhal...

Romani
Romani language

Romani or Romany, Gypsy or Gipsy is the language of the Romani people. It is an Indo-Aryan language, sometimes included in either the "Central Indo-Aryan" or the "Northwest Indo-Aryan languages" group, sometimes treated as a branch of its own....
(in Serbia
Serbia

Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a country in Central Europe and Balkans Europe, covering the southern part of the Pannonian Plain and the central part of the Balkans....
, Montenegro
Montenegro

Montenegro , Montenegrin language/Serbian language: ???? ????, Crna Gora , ) is a country located in Balkans. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the south and is bordered by Croatia to the west, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the northwest, Serbia to the north, Kosovo to the east and Albania to the south....
, Macedonia
Republic of Macedonia

The Republic of Macedonia , , often referred to simply as Macedonia, is a landlocked country on the Balkans in southeastern Europe. It is bordered by Serbia to the north, Bulgaria to the east, Greece to the south and Albania to the west....
, Bulgaria
Bulgaria

The state of Bulgaria , Scientific transliteration Balgarija, officially the Republic of Bulgaria has played a significant role in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe for over fourteen centuries....
and former USSR
Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
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Iranian languages
Iranian languages

The Iranian languages are a branch of the Indo-European languages and its subfamily, Indo-Iranian languages. These languages are mainly spoken by the Iranian Peoples....

Kurdish
Kurdish language

The Kurdish language is a term used for the language spoken by Kurdish people. It is mainly concentrated in the parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey....
(living in former USSR
Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
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Ossetic
Ossetic language

Ossetian , also sometimes called Ossete, is an Eastern Iranian languages language spoken in Ossetia, a region on the slopes of the Caucasus Caucasus Mountains....
(since 18th century, modern alphabet since 1938)
Tajik
Tajik language

The Tajik language, or Tajik Persian, or Tajiki, is a modern variety of the Persian language spoken in Central Asia. An Indo-European languages language of the Iranian languages language group, most speakers of Tajik live in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan....
Tat
Tat language

The Tat language or Tati is a Western Iranian languages spoken by the Tats in Azerbaijan and Russia. Its written form is related to Middle Persian Pahlavi....
(Judeo-Tat)
Shughni
Shughni language

Shughni is one of the Pamir languages of the Southeastern Iranian languages. Its distribution is in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province in Tajikistan and Badakhshan Province in Afghanistan....

Romance languages
Romance languages

The Romance languages are a branch of the Indo-European languages comprising all the languages that descend from Latin language, the language of ancient Rome....

Romanian
Romanian language

Romanian or Daco-Romanian ; self-designation: limba rom?na, ) is a Romance languages spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova....
(up to the 19th century, and a different form of Cyrillic in Moldova
Moldova

Moldova , officially the Republic of Moldova is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east and south....
from 1940–89 exclusively; now Cyrillic is used in Transnistria officially and in the rest of the country in everyday communication by some groups of people; see Moldovan alphabet
Moldovan alphabet

The Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet is a Cyrillic alphabet and developed for the Romanian language/Moldovan language in the Soviet Union in the 1930s....
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Ladino in occasional Bulgarian Sephardic publications.

Slavic languages
Slavic languages

File:Slavic europe.svgThe Slavic languages , a group of closely related languages of the Slavic peoples and a subgroup of Indo-European languages, have speakers in most of Eastern Europe, in much of the Balkans, in parts of Central Europe, and in the northern part of Asia....

Old Church Slavonic
Old Church Slavonic

Old Church Slavonic, also known as Old Bulgarian, or Old Macedonian, was the first literary Slavic language, based on the old Solun dialect of the Thessaloniki region by the 9th century Byzantine Greeks missionaries, Saints Cyril and Methodius, who used it for translation of the Bible and other Ancient Greek language ecclesiastica...
Church Slavonic
Belarusian
Belarusian language

The Belarusian language, or Belorussian is the language of the Belarusians and is spoken in Belarus and abroad, chiefly in Russia, Ukraine, and Poland....
, now almost exclusively in Cyrillic, although there was a Roman version of the language in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

The Polish?Lithuanian Commonwealth was one of the largest and most populous countries in 16th and 17th-century Europe, formed by a Union of Lublin of Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1569....
. The Belarusian Roman script was called Lacinka
Bulgarian
Bulgarian language

Bulgarian is an Indo-European languages, a member of the Slavic languages linguistic group.Bulgarian demonstrates several linguistic innovations that set it apart from all other Slavic languages except Macedonian language, such as the elimination of grammatical case, the development of a suffixed definite article , the lack of a verb infin...
Macedonian
Macedonian language

Macedonian is the official language of the Republic of Macedonia and is a part of the Eastern group of South Slavic languages. Macedonian is closely related to and shares a high degree of mutual intelligibility with the Bulgarian language, Serbian language, Bosnian language, and Croatian language languages....
Russian
Russian language

Russian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe....
Rusyn
Rusyn language

Rusyn is an East Slavic languages that is spoken by the Rusyns. Opinions differ among linguists concerning whether Rusyn is a separate East Slavic language or a dialect of Ukrainian language....
Serbian
Serbian language

name=Serbian|nativename=|pronunciation=['sr?pski?]|familycolor=Indo-European|map=|states=See below under "Official status", besides that in Croatia and as an immigrant's language spread over Central Europe and Western Europe, as well as Northern America...
Ukrainian
Ukrainian language

Ukrainian is a language of the East Slavic languages of the Slavic languages. It is the official language of Ukraine. In some areas of Russia there are dialects, Balachka or Surzhyk, which are the Ukrainianized versions of the Russian language....
Montenegrin
Montenegrin language

Montenegrin language is the name given to the Ijekavian-Shtokavian dialect spoken in Montenegro. Generally, it is recognized as a variant of the Serbian language, but some Montenegrins refer to their specific dialect as a language on its own....
Croatian
Croatian language

Croatian language is a South Slavic languages which is used primarily in Croatia, by Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in neighbouring countries where Croats are Indigenous peoples, in Italian region of Molise, and parts of the Croats diaspora....
used its redaction of Cyrillic (arvatica, poljicica) in church registry books in some Croat-inhabited areas until mid 19th century.

Languages of the Caucasus

(This group is not assumed to comprise genetically related subgroups.)

Northeast Caucasian languages
Northeast Caucasian languages

The Northeast Caucasian languages, also called East Caucasian, Caspian, Nakho-Dagestanian, or Dagestanian, are a family of languages spoken in the Russian republics of Dagestan, Chechnya, and Ingushetia, in northern Azerbaijan, and in Georgia , as well as in diaspora populations....
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Avar
Avar language

The modern Avar language belongs to the Avar-Andi-Tsez subgroup of the Alarodian Northeast-Caucasian language family....
Chechen
Chechen language

The Chechen language is spoken by more than 1.3 million people, mostly in Chechnya and by Chechen people elsewhere....
(since 1938, also with Roman 1991–2000)
Dargwa
Lak
Lak language

Lak language is the language of the Lak people from the Russian autonomous republic of Dagestan, where it is one of six literary languages. It is spoken by over 150,000 people and belongs to the Northeast Caucasian languages language family....
Lezgian
Lezgi language

Lezgian, also called Lezgi, is a language spoken by the Lezgins who live in southern Dagestan and northern Azerbaijan....
Tabassaran

Northwest Caucasian languages
Northwest Caucasian languages

The Northwest Caucasian languages, also called Pontic, Circassian, or Abkhaz-Adyghe, are a group of languages spoken in the Caucasus region, chiefly in Russia , Georgia , and Turkey, with smaller communities scattered throughout the Middle East....
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Abaza
Abaza language

The Abaza language is a language of the Caucasus mountains in the Russian Karachay-Cherkessia by the Abazins. It consists of two dialects, the Ashkherewa dialect and the T'ap'anta dialect, which is the literary standard....
Abkhaz
Abkhaz language

Abkhaz is a Northwest Caucasian languages spoken mainly by the Abkhaz people in Georgia , Turkey, and in Abkhazia, the republic that is generally accepted as part of Georgia, but that is recognized as independent by Russia and Nicaragua....
Adyghe
Adyghe language

Adyghe language is one of the two official languages of the Adygea in the Russia, the other being Russian language. It is spoken by various tribes of the Adyghe people: Abzekh, Adamey, Bzhedugh; Hatukuay, Kemirgoy, Makhosh; Natekuay, Shapsigh; Zhane , Yegerikuay, each with its own dialect....
Kabardian
Kabardian language

The Kabardian language is closely related to the Adyghe language , both members of the Northwest Caucasian languages family. It is spoken mainly in the Russian republics of Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia and in Turkey and the Middle East ....

Sino-Tibetan languages

Chinese language
Chinese language

Chinese or the Sinitic language is a language family consisting of language mutually unintelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the two branches of Sino-Tibetan languages of languages....
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Dungan
Dungan language

The Dungan language is a Spoken Chinese spoken by the Dungan people of Central Asia, an ethnic group related to the Hui people of China....
(since 1953)

Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages

Chukchi
Chukchi language

The Chukchi language also known as Luoravetlan, Chukot and Chukcha is a Palaeosiberian languages spoken by Chukchi people in the easternmost extremity of Siberia, mainly in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug....
(since 1936)
Koryak
Koryak language

Koryak is a Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages language spoken by circa 3,000 people in the easternmost extremity of Siberia, mainly in Koryak Okrug....
(since 1936)
Itelmen
Itelmen language

Itelmen, formerly also known as Kamchadal, is a language belonging to the Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages traditionally spoken in the Kamchatka Peninsula....

Mongolian languages

Buryat
Buryat language

Buryat is a Mongolic languages variety spoken by the Buryats that is usually dialect#"Dialect" or "language". The majority of Buryat speakers live in Russia along the northern border of Mongolia and speak Russia Buriat language....
Kalmyk
Kalmyk language

The Kalmyk language is the language spoken by the Kalmyks, that is, the Oirats of Kalmykia . The Kalmyk dialect belongs to the Oirat language within the Mongolic languages language family....
Mongolian
Mongolian language

The Mongolian language is the best-known member of the Mongolic languages. It is the language of most residents of Mongolia and of many of the Mongolian residents of Inner Mongolia, totalling about 5.7 million speakers....

Tungusic languages

Evenk
Evenk language

Evenki is the largest member of the northern group of Tungusic languages, a group which also includes the Even language and Negidal language languages....
(since 1936)
Nanai
Nanai

The Nanai people are a Tungusic people of the Far East, who have traditionally lived along Heilongjiang , Songhua River and Ussuri rivers on the Middle Amur Basin....
Udihe
Udege language

The Udege language is a language of the Tungusic languages. It contains a variety of loanwords from the closely-related Nanai language which have supplanted some older Udege vocabulary, such as...
(Udekhe) (writing recently is not used)

Turkic languages

Altay
Altay language

Altay is a language of the Turkic languages group of languages. It is an official language of Altai Republic, Russia. The language was called Oyrot prior to 1948....
Azeri
Azerbaijani language

Azerbaijani is a language belonging to the Turkic languages language family, spoken in southwestern Asia, primarily in Azerbaijan and northwestern Iran....
(1939–91, exclusively in Cyrillic, since 1991 officially in Roman, but in reality in everyday communication Cyrillic is used alongside with Roman script)
Balkar
Karachay-Balkar language

The Karachay-Balkar language is a Turkic language spoken by the Karachays and Balkars. It is divided into two dialects: Karachay which pronounces two phonemes as and , and Balkar, which pronounces the corresponding phonemes as and ....
Bashkir
Bashkir language

The Bashkir language is a Turkic languages....
Chuvash
Chuvash language

Chuvash ) is a Turkic language spoken in central Russia, primarily in the Republic of Chuvashia and adjacent areas. It is the only surviving member of the Oghur branch of Turkic languages....
Crimean Tatar
Crimean Tatar language

The Crimean Tatar language , also known as Crimean and Crimean Turkish is the language of the Crimean Tatars. It is spoken in Crimea, Central Asia , and the Crimean Tatar diasporas in Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria....
(1938–91)
Gagauz
Gagauz language

The Gagauz language is a Turkic language, spoken by the Gagauz people, and the official language of Gagauzia, Republic of Moldova. It is spoken by approximately 150,000 people....
(1957-1990s, exclusively in Cyrillic, since 1990s officially in Roman, but in reality in everyday communication Cyrillic is used alongside with Roman script)
Kazakh
Kazakh language

Kazakh is a Turkic languages language closely related to Nogai language and Karakalpak language.Kazakh is an agglutinative language, and it employs vowel harmony....
Karachay
Karachay-Balkar language

The Karachay-Balkar language is a Turkic language spoken by the Karachays and Balkars. It is divided into two dialects: Karachay which pronounces two phonemes as and , and Balkar, which pronounces the corresponding phonemes as and ....
Karakalpak
Karakalpak language

Karakalpak is a Turkic language mainly spoken by Karakalpaks in Karakalpakstan , as well as by Bashkirs and Nogay. Ethnic Karakalpaks who live in the Provinces of Uzbekistan tend to speak local Uzbek dialects....
(1940s–1990s)
Karaim language
Karaim language

The Karaim language is a Turkic languages with Hebrew language influences, in a similar manner to Yiddish language or Ladino language. It is spoken by Crimean Karaites - ethnic Turkic adherents of Karaite Judaism in Crimea, Lithuania, Poland and western Ukraine....
(20-th century)
Khakas
Khakas language

Khakas is a Turkic languages spoken by the Khakas people, who mainly live in the southern Siberian Khakas Republic, or Khakassia, in Russia. The Khakas number 78,500, of whom 60,168 speak the Khakas language; most people are bilingual in Russian language ....
Kumyk
Kumyk language

Kumyk is a Turkic languages, spoken by about 365,000 speakers in the Dagestan republic of Russian Federation.Yir?i Qazaq is usually considered to be a founder of Kumyk literature....
Kyrgyz
Kyrgyz language

Kyrgyz or Kirghiz is a Turkic languages and, together with Russian language, an official language of Kyrgyzstan. It is most closely related to Altay language and more distantly so to Kazakh language....
Nogai
Nogai language

Nogai , is a Turkic languages language spoken in southwestern Russia. Three distinct dialects are recognized: Qara-Nogay , spoken in Dagestan; Nogai Proper, in Stavropol; and Aqnogay , by the Kuban River, its tributaries in Karachay-Cherkessia, and in the Mineralnye Vody District....
Tatar
Tatar language

The Tatar language is a Turkic languages language spoken by the Tatars....
(since 1939; also with Roman since 2000, although not officially in Russia)
Turkmen
Turkmen language

Turkmen is the name of the national language of Turkmenistan. It is spoken by approximately 3,430,000 people in Turkmenistan, and by an additional approximately 6,000,000 people in other countries, including Iran , Iraq , Syria , Afghanistan , and Turkey ....
(1940–94 exclusively in Cyrillic, since 1994 officially in Roman, but in reality in everyday communication Cyrillic is used alongside with Roman script)
Tuvan
Tuvan language

Tuvan , also known as Tuvinian, Tyvan, or Tuvin, is one of the Turkic languages. It is spoken by around 200,000 people in the Republic of Tuva in south-central Siberia in Russia....
Uzbek
Uzbek language

Uzbek is a Turkic languages and the official language of Uzbekistan. It has about 23.5 million native speakers, and it is spoken by the Uzbeks in Uzbekistan and elsewhere in Central Asia....
(1941–98 exclusively in Cyrillic, since 1998 Cyrillic is used alongside with Roman script, which was prescribed as the "future" alphabet of Uzbek)
Yakut

Uralic languages

Samoyedic languages
Samoyedic languages

File:Uralic-Yukaghir.pngThe Samoyedic languages are spoken on both sides of the Ural mountains, in northernmost Eurasia, by perhaps 30,000 speakers altogether....

Nenets
Nenets language

Nenets is a language spoken by the Nenets people in northern Russia. It belongs to the Samoyedic languages which form the Uralic languages family with the Finno-Ugric languages....
(since 1937)
Selkup
Selkup language

Selkup language is a language of the Selkups. It is spoken by some 1,570 people in the region between the Ob and Yenisei Rivers . The language name Selkup comes from the Russian language "" ...
(since 1950s writing recently is not used)

Finno-Ugric languages
Finno-Ugric

Finno-Ugric can refer to:* Finno-Ugric languages* Finno-Ugric peoplesExcess long comment to prevent listing on...

Karelian
Karelian language

Karelian is a language closely related to Finnish language, with which it is not necessarily mutually intelligible. Karelian is spoken mainly in Republic of Karelia, Russia....
(1940–1991)
Khanty
Khanty language

Khanty or Xanty language, also known as the Ostyak language, is a language of the Khant peoples. It is spoken in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug okrugs, as well as in Aleksandrovsky District, Tomsk Oblast and Kargosoksky District, Tomsk Oblast districts of Tomsk Oblast in Russia....
Mansi
Mansi language

The Mansi language is a language of the Mansi. It is spoken in territories of Russia along the Ob River and its tributary, including the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug and the Sverdlovsk Oblast....
(since 1937 writing has not received distribution)
Komi
Komi language

The Komi language, also known as Zyrian, or Komi-Zyrian, is a Finno-Permic languages language spoken by the Komi peoples in the northeastern European part of Russia....

Komi-Zyrian (since 17th century, modern alphabet since 1930s)
Komi-Permyak
Komi-Permyak language

Komi-Permyak is spoken in Komi-Permyak Okrug of Perm Krai, Russia, in the basin of the Kama River. It is a Finno-Ugric languages language related to Komi-Zyrian language and Udmurt language....

Mari
Mari language

The Mari language , spoken by more than 600,000 people, belongs to the Finno-Ugric languages branch of the Uralic languages language family. It is spoken primarily in the Mari El of the Russian Federation as well as in the area along the Vyatka River river basin and eastwards to the Ural Mountains....
(since 19th century)
Mordvin languages

Erzya
Erzya language

Erzya language is spoken by about 500,000 people in the northern and eastern and north-western parts of the Republic of Mordovia and adjacent regions of Nizhniy Novgorod, Chuvashia, Penza, Samara, Saratov, Orenburg, Ulyanovsk, Tatarstan and Bashkortostan in Russia....
(since 18th century)
Moksha
Moksha language

The Moksha language is a Volga-Finnic languages with about 500,000 native speakers. Moksha is the majority language in the western part of Mordovia and spoken by Moksha people worldwide....
(since 18th century)

Sami
Sami languages

Sami or Saami is a general name for a group of Uralic languages spoken by the Sami people in parts of northern Finland, Norway, Sweden and extreme northwestern Russia, in Northern Europe....
(in Russia, since 1980s)

Kildin Sami

Udmurt
Udmurt language

Udmurt is a Finno-Permic languages spoken by the Udmurt people, natives of the Russian constituent republic of Udmurtia, where it is co-official with the Russian language....

Eskimo-Aleut languages

Aleut
Aleut language

Aleut is a language of the Eskimo-Aleut language family. It is the tongue of the Aleut people living in the Aleutian Islands, Pribilof Islands, and Commander Islands....
(in 19th century)
Central Siberian Yupik (Yuit)
Siberian Yupik language

Siberian Yupik is the language of the Siberian Yupik people, an indigenous people who reside along the coast of the Chukchi Peninsula in the Russian Far East and on St....

Afro-Asiatic languages

Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic

Assyrian Neo-Aramaic is a modern Eastern Aramaic language language. Assyrian Neo Aramaic is neither to be confused with Akkadian language, nor the Old Aramaic dialect that was adopted as a lingua franca in Assyria in the 8th century BC....
(Aisor)

Other languages

Nivkh
Nivkh language

Nivkh or Gilyak is a language spoken in Outer Manchuria, in the basin of the Amgun River , along the lower reaches of the Amur itself, and on the northern half of Sakhalin....
Ket
Ket language

The Ket language, formerly known as Yenisei Ostyak, a Siberian language long thought to be an language isolate, the sole surviving language of a Yeniseian languages, is spoken along the middle Yenisei Basin by the Ket people....
Yukaghir
Russian sign language
Russian Sign Language

Russian Sign Language is the sign language of the deaf community in Russia. It has a grammar unlike the Russian language, although there is a "Manually coded language" which has been used on television in interpreted news programs....
(uses the Cyrillic alphabet via the Russian Manual Alphabet
Russian Manual Alphabet

The Russian Manual Alphabet is used for fingerspelling in Russian sign language. The alphabet consists of Cyrillic letters, the same used in Russian language and other languages....
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Constructed languages

International auxiliary language
International auxiliary language

An international auxiliary language or interlanguage is a language meant for communication between people from different nations who do not share a common native language....
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Lingua Franca Nova
Lingua Franca Nova

Lingua Franca Nova is an auxiliary language constructed language created by Dr. C. George Boeree of Shippensburg University, Pennsylvania. Its vocabulary is based on French language, Italian language, Portuguese language, Spanish language, and Catalan language....

Fictional language
Fictional language

Fictional languages are by far the largest group of artistic languages. Fictional languages are intended to be the languages of a fictional world, and are often designed with the intent of giving more depth and an appearance of plausibility to the fictional worlds with which they are associated, and to have their characters communicate in a...
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Brutopia
Brutopia

Brutopia is a fictional country appearing in several Donald Duck stories. It was created by Carl Barks in 1957. Brutopia is a very hostile country, aiming for world domination....
n (Donald Duck
Donald Duck

Donald Duck is a cartoon fictional character from The Walt Disney Company. Donald is a white anthropomorphism duck with a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet....
stories)
Syldavian
Syldavian

Syldavian is a fictional language created by Herg? as the national language of Syldavia, a small fictional Balkan monarchy that serves as a major setting in some The Adventures of Tintin stories....
(The Adventures of Tintin
The Adventures of Tintin

The Adventures of Tintin is a series of comic strips created by Belgium artist Herg?, the pen name of Georges Remi . The series first appeared in French in a children's supplement to the Belgian newspaper on 10 January 1929....
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