Cyrillic language alphabets and how they diverge from one another

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The following letters in the Cyrillic alphabet diverge from those in Russian, as found in the Library of Congress Russian transliteration table. This chart includes letters from Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian, Russian (cursive), and Ukranian that are unique to that language. The chart serves to help identify the language of publications in the Cyrillic alphabet.

This information was compiled from: Cyrillic Alphabets by Karel Piska, transliteration tables from the Princeton University Slavic Cataloging Manual, and A manual of European languages for librarians, by C.G. Allen.

• See also
  • CPSO's Identification of Serbian, Croatian, and Bosnian, which says that "works in the Cyrillic alphabet are probably Serbian. Works in the roman alphabet may be Serbian, Croatian, or Bosnian."
  • information from Wikipedia on Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian.
  • Cyrillic alphabet from Omniglot

Bulgarian
Upper case	Lower case	Transliterates as
		Sht, sht
		,
Macedonian
Upper case	Lower case	Transliterates as
		,
Note: Macedonian uses the Serbian form of the Cyrillic alphabet, but uses: ° and after and T instead of and ° s (dz) after
Upper case	Lower case	Transliterates as
		,
S	s	Dz, dz
J	j	J, j
		,
		Lj, lj
		Nj, n j
		C, c [transliterates as , in Russian]
		,
Serbian
Upper case	Lower case	Transliterates as
		,
J	j	J, j
		Lj, lj
		Nj, n j
		,
Russian (cursive)
Upper case	Lower case	Transliterates as
Ë	ë	Ë, ë
Ukranian
		H, h [transliterates as G, g in Russian]
		G, g
		,
		, [transliterates Zh, zh in Russian]
		Y, y [transliterates as I, i in Russian]
I	i	I, i [transliterates as , in Russian]
Ï	ï	Ï, ï