Can you name the languages that use the Cyrillic alphabet with 500,00 or more speakers? by Shwoo

Can you name the languages that use the Cyrillic alphabet with 500,00 or more speakers?

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Source: Ethnologue
Includes languages that use other scripts. The speakers column lists the amount of speakers in total, not the amount of speakers that use Cyrillic. Omniglot was also used to collect answers.
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Number of speakers	Language	Other Previous or Current Scripts
143,553,950		0
37,029,730		0
23,351,080		Latin
20,250,572		Arabic, Latin
19,147,529		Arabic, Latin
16,025,505		Arabic, Latin
9,097,220		0
8,788,690		Arabic, Latin
8,618,630		Latin
8,331,950		Arabic, Latin
7,020,550		Latin
6,562,810		Latin

Number of speakers	Language	Other Previous or Current Scripts
6,496,600		Arabic, Latin
5,720,670		Arabic, Latin, Mongolian
4,457,500		Perso-Arabic, Latin
2,893,354		Arabic, Latin
2,113,170		0
1,632,500		Latin
1,500,000		Arabic, Latin
1,341,000		Arabic, Latin
788,960		Arabic, Latin
696,630		0
614,000		0
641,450		Arabic, Latin

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Languages Using the Cyrillic alphabet Quiz

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	ulashima:	Dec 20th, 2010 at 07:53 GMT		2 points
	This is a mixed situation. Although all languages here have used Cyrillic alphabet in history, some of them are rarely using today. Kurdish uses different alphabets according to the country it's spoken in. Cyrillic using Kurds are only the ones living in the Ex-Soviet territories. The others use Latin (Turkey) or Arabic (Iran-Iraq-Syria) scripts, and possibly the Armenian script in Armenia. Romanian has a similar situation. Possibly the Cyrillic alphabet was used only during Soviet times in Moldova. Today's Moldova uses Latin script as in Romania, and the only people who use Cyrillic alphabet with Romanian are those in Transnistria (and other people of Moldovan-Romanian origin in other parts of Ex-Soviet territories). Uyghur too is written with Cyrillic alphabet in Ex-Soviet countries, but in Xinjiang region of China where most Uyghurs are living, Arabic script is used to write Uyghur. Uzbekistan has recently switched to Latin alphabet like Azerbaijan but although the Latin script caught up in Azerbaijan, many people are said to be still using Cyrillic with Uzbek. These may raise some voice from the Sporcle community for exclusion of the non-Cyrillic script users of these languages, meaning a heavy editing. I think that in this sense Azerbaijani can be added in this list, because it had been used before to write Azerbaijani (though now Latin is used in Azerbaijan and Arabic is used in Iran for the language...Iran's Azerbaijani-language sattelite channel uses Cyrillic script, a weird use in my opinion). And another thing: Tajiki should be spelt as Tajik.

	Shwoo:	Dec 20th, 2010 at 08:10 GMT		2 points
	@ulashima: Thanks for the comment. I intentionally included every language that uses Cyrillic, even if it's not used exclusively. I'll add a note saying so, and maybe another column describing what other scripts are used. I used "Tajiki" because that's what Ethnologue called it, but it looks like everything else calls it Tajik in English, so I'll fix it. Thanks.

	ulashima:	Dec 20th, 2010 at 09:37 GMT		2 points
	Thanks for the changes. What does ethnologue say about Azeri-Azerbaijani? It's not included, but it has also used Cyrillic before, and it must have a sizable speaker population as far as I know.

	Shwoo:	Dec 20th, 2010 at 10:25 GMT		2 points
	It only includes languages that currently use Cyrillic. I used Omniglot to get the languages, and Azerbaijani wasn't on their list of languages that use Cyrillic, so it didn't occur to me. Ethnologue says that Cyrillic is used to write Azerbaijani in Armenia, so I'll add it. Thanks again.

	ulashima:	Dec 20th, 2010 at 11:59 GMT		1 point
	The last time I read Omniglot, it included the Azeri Cyrillic script. I wonder what's happened....I used to hang around in its forums (with the same nickname, no less) but the forum site crashed and all the accounts were deleted, I stopped visiting there. Anything like that perhaps? It's one of my favourite sites, I don't want something like that to happen.

	Shwoo:	Dec 21st, 2010 at 05:31 GMT		1 point
	Never mind, it does list Azeri under Cyrillic. I must have closed the tab accidentally when I was picking languages, or something. Sorry.