#cyrillic — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #cyrillic, aggregated by home.social.
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The #Cyrillic alphabet is celebrated across the Slavonic-speaking world, but not only as an appreciation of literacy – it has a political dimension too.
⌛️ Last chance to read this archive article for free
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/inventing-cyrillic
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How hard is it for an English-speaking monoglot to learn #Cyrillic?
Just thought it might be nice to be able to distinguish the various Cyrillic-written languages, not necessarily learn any of them in-depth (ADHD, yo ;)
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Kyrylo Tkachov from Alfabravo shared a work in progress—an Ukrainian Cyrillic cursive project that feels especially interesting for the way it engages local traditions, historical references, and alternative graphic logics, rather than defaulting to so-called 'standard' Cyrillic italics. Curious to see where this goes with Latin and Greek characters.🤔
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Good to see a master’s project centered on Ukrainian type design presented in UAP (Poznań).
Lumyo is described as a text typeface family shaped by Ukrainian authenticity. What matters here is not “local flavor” as decoration, but an attempt to think through Ukrainian Cyrillic as a design problem, a historical layer, and a living graphic tradition with its own logic and references.
Congrats to Anna Pohorielova.
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When designing multilingual systems, what becomes the default? Whose language serves as the sample? Whose history shapes the narrative?
“Erasure by Default” describes cases where one dominant example stands in for the whole.
The MyFonts post on Cyrillic is a clear example: a script used by over 50 languages is framed solely through a russian lens. A shared typographic ecology is reduced to an imperial norm, even though Cyrillic also lives in Ukrainian, Bulgarian, or many Central Asian languages (which were forced into it under russification policies).Power operates through defaults, metadata, and taxonomy. It’s not merely exclusion but deciding who gets to represent the many.
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Things I Learned: Official Languages in Russia
From a January 12, 2026 Jamestown Foundation report by Vadim Shtepa: The Karelian language has no official status in Russia because it is written in the Latin alphabet, as only those written in Cyrillic can be official languages of Russian republics. Thus, I learned that only languages that use the Cyrillic alphabet can be granted "official status" in Russia. This reminded me of something I learned which inspired me to write Similarities between Moldovan and Romanian on The New Leaf […]https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/official-languages-in-russia-01-16-26/
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I can't bear it, even though I'm not one of the 250 million users of Cyrillic.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/28/the-hill-i-will-die-on-faux-cyrillic
Image: "Bike Farm -- Austin, Texas" in faux Cyrillic -- Taken from Facebook
#FauxCyrillic #Cyrillic #GraphicDesign #Lettering #Script #EverydayAnnoyances
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The month of #thanks (in America, anyway, but #gratitude applies all over the world)
(words in #cyrillic, specifically #moldovan, #ukrainian, and #russian)
#TKb0iZArt #Art #PixelArt #MastoArt #FediArt #WordArt #DigitalArt #drawing #GIF #BrightColors #polyglot
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What is the double-purple-underlined Russian word? A collaborator told me that it means “decorated” or “honored.” My best wrong reading is «кагратдей»... not apparently a word. Can anyone please correct me?
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Found this lurking about on Tumblr recently with no description. If there are folks here that can translate and let us know what it is, that would be appreciated. Ta! #cyrillic #russian #weirdcarmastodon
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Tuesday, September 9, 2025
Alaska summit with Trump gave Putin what he wanted -- 19th Russian top executive dies under suspicious circumstances since full-scale invasion of Ukraine --Russia planned large-scale offensive in Zaporizhzhia direction, but Ukraine thwarted it -- Ukrainian drones strike fuel pumping station supplying diesel to Moscow ... and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/09/tuesday-september-9-2025/
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I love #Uyghur #Mongolian scripts #calligraphy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongoli... Not able to decipher it for now Probably someday, after I can decypher #cyrillic mongolian sentences a bit My few mongolian lessons were mega-difficult Left me the feeling of a whole alien pronunciation-system
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:z6waoa35tpo7o5tcengyivv6/post/3lvvvwak57s22
Mongolian script - Wikipedia -
It is interesting to see a recent #anthology containing not only #Turkish contributions but also #Uzbek ones in various alphabets, some in #Cyrillic and others in Latin script.
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[8½ years ago today]
I found my #doppelganger in a #painting. The #cyrillic #inscription makes me think he was called #Peter and was a #missionary in #japan. | #typographyinthewild #typography #Russian #russiantypography #cyrillictypography
(First posted 8 Sept. 2016 by me [@][email protected])
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O. Снарский [O. Snarsky], Шрифты/Алфавиты [Typefaces/Alphabets], Kyiv, 1979.
One of several lettering manuals and alphabet source books by Snarsky in our collection. See more from this one: https://www.flickr.com/photos/letterformarchive/albums/72157717675267558/
Know more about Snarsky? Tell us!
#Ukraine #USSR #UkranianDesign #Lettering #Alphabets #Cyrillic #Typography #1970s
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Mistodon: this #ASCIIart #Cyrillic script rendition of the name of #AntonChekhov's 1900 play #ThreeSisters (Три сeстры́) was drawn by DosDoc as part of his prize-winning submission to the text art competition at Moscow's recent "Demodulation 2023" demoparty. This piece was also included in the recent MIST0823 artpack collection.
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Создавал новый образ в VisualWorks и опять всплыла сложность с отображением кириллицы. Пришлось напрягаться вспоминать как я N лет назад создавал образ и успешно настраивал отображение русских букв)
Вспомнил всё-таки. Там надо открыть GUI Painter и в нём в меню есть настройки Named Fonts. Вот там надо указать вместо Helvetica свои гарнитуры. Я обычно указываю PT Sans Mono. После этого, в главном окне в настройках уже сменить named font на какой-нибудь другой (например, medium на small или large), чтоб образ переключился на выбранную гарнитуру.
А ещё вспомнил как 7.4 не поддерживала UTF-8 и приходилось настраивать локаль koi8-r и запускать под ней образ, чтоб русский успешно работал. Но это было очень давно конечно)
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Создавал новый образ в VisualWorks и опять всплыла сложность с отображением кириллицы. Пришлось напрягаться вспоминать как я N лет назад создавал образ и успешно настраивал отображение русских букв)
Вспомнил всё-таки. Там надо открыть GUI Painter и в нём в меню есть настройки Named Fonts. Вот там надо указать вместо Helvetica свои гарнитуры. Я обычно указываю PT Sans Mono. После этого, в главном окне в настройках уже сменить named font на какой-нибудь другой (например, medium на small или large), чтоб образ переключился на выбранную гарнитуру.
А ещё вспомнил как 7.4 не поддерживала UTF-8 и приходилось настраивать локаль koi8-r и запускать под ней образ, чтоб русский успешно работал. Но это было очень давно конечно)
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@riley @mcc
This is fascinating!I've been studying #Czech, which shares a ton of #phonemes and #vocabulary with other #Slavic languages, but is written with a Latin-based character set (I say "Latin-based" because Czech uses an assortment of #diacritic marks as #pronunciation modifiers on an otherwise standard #Latin character set).
On several occasions, I've come across a #Russian or #Ukrainian word written in its native #Cyrillic script followed by a #phonetic pronunciation guide written in Latin characters, and consequently recognized the word as one that is shared with Czech. Those moments of recognition are just pure #linguistic glee.
