Since the 1920s and ’30s each Paleo-Siberian language has had a literary language and a script now based on theCyrillic alphabet(and formerly based on the Latin script). Because at one time these native languages were used in part inelementary education, primers and arithmetic books for the...
Several of the northern Caucasian languages have scripts based on theCyrillicalphabet. Typical of some Caucasian languages isAdyghefirst written in 1918 with an alphabet based on the Arabic script. Since 1938, however, the language has been written with the Cyrillic script, as part of the russific...