File talk:Cyrillic alphabet world distribution.svg

why is not bosnia on the map, or at least serb republic part?

Albanian are not cyrillic. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Foption (talk • contribs) 02:36, 5 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Given that all of the highlighted countries are in the eastern Northern Hemisphere, should the image be cropped down a bit, perhaps to above the equator and right of the prime meridian? There's so much unnecessary space here that when used in articles, it ends up looking pretty useless.... --- Isaac (talk) 17:58, 25 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That country should not be light green coloured, for Cyrillic alphabet is not used there. It was replaced by Roman script in the late 18th century I believe. As for the tag placed above, this seems to me the right place for requesting corrections to the image rather than trying "the talk page of an article that the image is used in". Apcbg (talk) 08:57, 5 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

One of official ?

Romania seems to be a mistake to me too. The definition of the map colors is: English: This map shows the countries in the world that use the Cyrillic alphabet as the official script in dark green and as one of official in light green.

Cyrillic most certainly is not being used as one of the official alphabets in Romania.

This seems to have been introduced on 01:54, 17 July 2010 by SpyHunter29 and it's justified as:

(Changed shading for Azerbaijan, Moldova, Romania, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. New light green shading is for nations that formerly used the Cyrillic script but do not do so currently.)

This seems to change the definition of what the light green shading represents and if we go by that logic, why not include East Germany too?

In short, I believe the change made by SpyHunter29 should be reverted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.82.14.198 (talk) 14:08, 31 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Serbian Cyrillic is the only official script in Serbia, under its constitution. Serbia should be dark green. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.149.4.4 (talk) 14:56, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, Cyrillic is only script in official use. I think map should be changed. --Dalibor Đurić (talk) 10:05, 5 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Agree that Serbia should be dark green. As I understand it it is middle green because of Kosovo. In a case when it is considered part of Serbia, Latin and Cyrillic are official only in the Autonomous Province of Kosovo not in the rest of Serbia, so Kosovo should be painted middle green separately from the rest. --Ceco31 (talk) 14:54, 12 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Map in the article shows that Azerbaijan is among countries using Cyrillic alphabet as one of official alphabet. It is totally wrong, since there is only one official alphabet in Azerbaijan and it is Roman alphabet. Regards, --Verman1 (talk) 09:16, 11 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

On the map, Azerbaijan is coloured "light-green for countries that formerly used the Cyrillic script but do not do so currently"; but the colour difference is not enough. The same problem has been raised over misreading the colour of Romania. —Coroboy (talk) 12:26, 25 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Mongolia also has the Mongolian script as official...
DerekWinters (talk) 19:38, 27 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

1. Georgia should be gray as the sole official script in Georgia without Abkhazia and South Ossetia is the Georgian. In the country's entirety without the breakaway regions the Cyrillic was never used and unofficial during Soviet rule and there are no significant minorities.
1.1. Abkhazia should be dark green as the Cyrillic is the sole official script there.
1.2. South Ossetia should be middle green as Cyrillic is co-offical with Georgian.

2. Moldova is currently middle green and should be changed because the sole official script there is currently the Latin. Because 16% of the population of Moldova without Transnistria are Cyrillic peoples and there is a common literacy for the Cyrillic because the Moldovan Cyrillic script was official during Soviet rule it should be changed to light green. In the country's entirety without the breakaway region the Cyrillic is unofficial.
2.1. Transnitria should be dark green as the Cyrillic is the sole official script there. --Ceco31 (talk) 15:22, 12 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I find no reason why Latvia should be in light green. While true that Cyrillic was used during Soviet rule, it was never used for Latvian language (which use modified Latin script), but rather for Russian language imposed by Soviet Union. And I'm fairly sure the same stands true for Estonia. I suggest that both countries be coloured in grey. JohnLM (talk) 15:44, 31 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Cyrillic is in no way officially used in those countries. It is used only unofficially by Russian (or other languages that use Cyrillic) speaking minority groups living in those countries. Neither Estonian nor Latvian language (the only official languages of those countries respectively at all levels of government) have never been written in Cyrillic even at times of extreme russification or sovietization. So colouring Estonia and Latvia light green is wrong according to definition of this colour at this map. (Lauri, Estonia) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.131.118.61 (talk) 16:35, 22 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]