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Cyrillic Alphabets Cyrillic Alphabets Karel P´ıˇska Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences 180 40 Prague, Czech Republic [email protected], [email protected] URL: http://www-hep.fzu.cz/~piska/ Abstract A collection of Cyrillic-based language alphabets is presented. The contribution contains the data about more than 50 languages using Cyrillic script. A “Unicode- like” coded font is used for the rendering of the Cyrillic texts. The aim is to take part in creating a universal Cyrillic font for TEX and the Ω project and to further help languages using Cyrillic join the TEX community. Introduction Language Names and Codes Cyrillic-based alphabets are (or have been) used by The ISO standard 639-2 (1993) and the Ethnologue nations in the Russian Federation, and a number base eth (1990) contain the English names of lan- of nations in Europe and Asia, including many guages and also their three-letter codes. Another nations of the former USSR now beyond the Russian source of language names I have used is Webster’s border. The article aims to present a list of currently Dictionary (1989). Unfortunately the English and existing written languages using the Cyrillic script international terminology is not stabilized. When and having a codified literary form. I began translation from Russian I could not find Most of the character encoding systems for unambiguous names for languages in English. On Cyrillic used in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and also the other hand, the Russian names are fixed in most the UCS/Unicode [5] standard are based on the cases. O7K: Russian alphabet. They contain a continuous or- One example, “ 04K359A:89 ( )”, is evident dered code sequence only for Russian letters. Other in Russian – but I have not selected the best exam- characters are non-standard, they are missing or ples from the following variants: Adyghe, Adyge, they are coded “accidentally”. I will call these char- Adygey, Adygei, Adighe, Circassian, Lower Cir- acters “additional” (relative to the usual computer cassian, West Circassian, Kinkh, Kjkax, Cherkes. encoding standards!). Many Cyrillic alphabets were Therefore, I have decided to present one (rarely two) borrowed from the Russian alphabet. We can con- language name(s) in Russian and one (maximally sider their “non-Russian” letters being “additional” two) name(s) in English (often selected “arbitrar- or “new”, often they were created (appended) as ily”). The ISO and eth language codes are also “new” characters. Of course, the previous assertion shown in the table of languages which use Cyrillic. is not true for languages which have traditionally If the first code (ISO) is not defined or the codes are used Cyrillic script – Belarusian, Ukrainian, Serbian, different then the second code (eth) is presented. Macedonian and Bulgarian. One of my most important sources has been Real Font ! 8;O@52A:89 ! @82=8= . and . (1960). Un- The B5 font family (borrowing from the Computer fortunately this unique book may be obsolete today. Modern) is a bank of Cyrillic glyphs corresponding I would be very grateful for corrections and remarks to the Ω project (Haralambous and Plaice, 1995). and also references to another sources; especially The proposed encoding of a real 8-bit font is based if the reader is an expert in any language. Please on Unicode (ISO-IEC 10646-1, 1993) — more ex- contact me by email. More information about lan- actly, "04xx mod "100. Thus the character codes guages can be found on my WWW Home Page (e.g., are well defined and standardized. This can simplify complete alphabetical orders). And please overlook communication between authors supporting and im- my lack of knowledge of English. proving the fonts. The table of the b5r12 font (Computer Modern Cyrillic Roman 12 point) is on the last page of the 92 TUGboat, 17, Number 2 — Proceedings of the 1996 Annual Meeting Cyrillic Alphabets article. I repeat: the real font is only a bank of languages uses a Cyrillic-alphabet (in my opinion). glyphs and cannot be used autonomously in a simple I would like to add the following comments: and effective way. • I have no data about other characters; for Virtual Font example, punctuation marks, special signs and other symbols. A virtual font was created for the present article to • I don’t present information about additional enable access to Cyrillic letters using ASCII char- characters not in current use. acters. For creating .tfm files for virtual fonts, • Old Cyrillic is omitted and is not a subject of the program VFComb (Berdnikov and Turtia, 1995) inquiry in this paper. was used. It allows the definition (or redefinition), mapping, ligature and kerning data once for all font • Regarding the variant forms: more alternative sizes, and then merging them with metric informa- glyphs may be stored in a font bank and then tion of the real fonts (reading proper list files). It is selected to depict a particular character. This necessary to mention that every font in TEX (real or problem is solvable in TEX. virtual) can contain no more than 256 characters • Regarding letters with diacritics: there are im- and it is complicated, or impossible, using fonts portant differences in the three distinct appli- with many characters. This is a good reason for cations of diacritical marks (with possible dis- introducing Ω – the 16-bit extension of TEX. The agreement in different languages). virtual font used in this article combines a real font 1. The accented symbol denotes the distinct with Unicode-like encoding (mod "100), a font with letter as opposed to the same symbol with- alternative glyphs (located separately) and several out an accent and it may even be posi- characters from the original CM (e.g., parentheses). tioned independently in the alphabet. The way of referencing the “I’s” is shown in the 2. An accent can be used to modify the sym- following example. bols representing vowels and consonants: A segment from the .tbf file (input file for VF- for example; vowels can be marked for Comb) length or nasalization, consonants can be (LIGTABLE marked for palatalization. The presence of (LABEL C I) the accent when writing is significant but (LIG C 1 O 006) unlike the above item, the combination (LIG C 2 O 007) does not constitute a new or special letter, (LIG C 3 O 300) and therefore would be alphabetized in the (LIG C 4 O 342) same position as the letter without such a (LIG C 5 O 344) diacritic. (STOP) 3. An accent is used to mark stress. These (LABEL C i) “stressed” letters are not part of the writ- (LIG C 1 O 022) ing system but are, nevertheless, necessary (LIG C 2 O 211) for entries in dictionaries and textbooks. (LIG C 4 O 343) A few examples illustrate the use of stress (LIG C 5 O 345) marks (above, right or below): (STOP) =B &0" 0:F´e , ) ac0cent mark0,rAkze.nt results Alphabetical Orders and Sort ‘Ii’ => 8 % “Standard” ‘I’ ‘I1i1’ => V % Ukrainian/Belarusian ‘I’ The greater number of languages using Cyrillic in ‘I2i2’ => W % Ukrainian ‘YI’ Russia and the former USSR have adopted words ?0;>G:0 ‘I3’ => À % Caucasian aspiration sign “ ” from Russian or, with modifications, in the original ‘I4i4’ => âã % Tadzhik ‘I’ with stress form (especially proper names) and their alphabets ‘I5i5’ => äå include all Russian letters. Not often exceptions are Ukrainian, Belarusian, Moldaviancyror Abkhazian. Alphabetical orders of distinct languages may Cyrillic Character Set and Unicode be different. “Additional” letters have been ap- The ISO/IEC 10646-1/Unicode (1993 E) covers pended to the end or may occur in the middle most of the letters used in current living written of alphabets. Two letters may be located in the TUGboat, 17, Number 2 — Proceedings of the 1996 Annual Meeting 93 Karel P´ıˇska opposite order. And then the order of similar or The confusion perhaps may be in my sources or in even identical words in dictionaries or indexes may Unicode. be different. Examples (1960, 1990)12 Unicode codes Russian Ukrainian Q "0401 "0451 Many languages use the .N /O .N /O ,L ,L < < < < Q letter Q. The list of the languages is 20;OBLAO 20;OB8AO 20;LA 20;LA < < not used in is shorter: ?>;NA ?>;NA ?>;LAL:89 ?>;LA:89 < < Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatiancyr, A0;NB A0;NB A0;L=89 A0;L=K9 < < Macedonian, Kurdishcyr, Moldaviancyr, Correspondence Cyrillic vs. Latin Azerbaijani, Abkhazian, Abazin(?) Many languages now written in Cyrillic used Latin- cyr R "0402 "0452 Serbo-Croatian like alphabets in the 1930s (e.g., Tatar or Kazakh). S Several languages have used both Latin and Cyrillic "0403 "0453 Macedonian T alphabets — at the last count these included Serbo- "0404 "0454 Ukrainian Croatian, Kurdish, Moldavian, and Azerbaijani. U "0405 "0455 Macedonian Several nations are preparing projects to migrate V from Cyrillic to Latin. The alphabetical orders "0406 "0456 Ukrainian, Belarusian, for Cyrillic and Latin are different but I am sure Kazakh, Khakass, Komi (Zyrian), it will be possible to define algorithms for auto- Komi-Permyak matic transliteration, use of common hyphenation W "0407 "0457 Ukrainian patterns and compile and print texts from the one cyr X "0408 "0458 Serbo-Croatian , source, in either writing system, to produce for a Macedonian, Azerbaijani, Altaic (Oirot) reader the script with which she/he is familiar. cyr "0409 "0459 Y Serbo-Croatian , Cyrillic Letters and Symbols Macedonian cyr The table contains the Cyrillic characters defined in "040A "045A Z Serbo-Croatian , the Unicode standard. Russian letters (used in most Macedonian cyr [ alphabets) and old Cyrillic letters and symbols are "040B "045B Serbo-Croatian omitted in the list. Corresponding symbolic names \ "040C "045C Macedonian of characters can be found in [5, 6].
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