Introduction

Fonts for Windows

On this site we offer minority language fonts for Windows platforms. These are not professional high quality fonts, but may nevertheless satisfy the needs of most users. The fonts can be freely distributed and modified.

Keyboard layouts for Windows

Fonts and keyboard layouts

Altai

Russian alphabet with additional letters. Supported by the Unicode standard, Uralic fonts. It is also possible to use fonts for the Mari language.

Bashkir

Russian alphabet with addtional letters. Supported by the Unicode standard, Eurasian fonts.

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Buryat

Russian alphabet with additional letters. Supported by the Unicode standard, Eurasian fonts. It is also possible to use fonts for the Bashkir, Kazakh, Tatar and Yakut languages.

Chuvash

Russian alphabet with additional letters. Supported by the Unicode standard, Eurasian fonts.

Chukchi

Russian alphabet with additional letters. Supported by the Unicode standard, Paleoasian fonts.

Dolgan

Russian alphabet with additional letters. Supported by the Unicode standard, Sakha fonts.

Itelmen

Russian alphabet with additional letters. Supported by the Paleoasian fonts.

Kalmyk

Russian alphabet with additional letters. Supported by the Unicode standard, Eurasian fonts. It is also possible to use fonts for the Tatar language.

Karelian

Latin alphabet with additional letters. Supported by the Latin 2 encoding.

Khakas

Russian alphabet with additional letters. Supported by the Unicode standard, Sayan-Altai fonts.

Khanty

Russian alphabet with additional letters. Supported by the Unicode standard, Uralic fonts.

Komi

Russian alphabet with additional letters. Supported by the Unicode standard, Uralic fonts. It is also possible to use fonts for the Mari and Udmurt languages.

  • Abur — Old-Permic font for Windows
  • KeyKomi — Komi keyboard layout for the Uralic fonts (Windows 95/98/ME)
  • KeyKomi32 — "Pseudo-Unicode" Komi keyboard layout (Windows NT4/2000/XP)

Koryak

Russian alphabet with additional letters. Supported by the Unicode standard, Paleoasian fonts.

Mansi

Russian alphabet with additional letters. Supported by the Mansi fonts.

Mari

Russian alphabet with additional letters. Supported by the Unicode standard, Uralic fonts.

Nenets

Russian alphabet with additional letters. Supported by the Unicode standard, Uralic fonts.

Nivkh

Russian alphabet with additional letters. Supported by the Paleoasian fonts.

Saami (Kildin dialect)

Russian alphabet with additional letters. Supported by the Unicode standard (since version 3.2), Kildin fonts.

Selkup

Russian alphabet with additional letters. Supported by the Unicode standard, Uralic fonts.

Shor

Russian alphabet with additional letters. Supported by the Unicode standard, Sayan-Altai fonts.

Tatar

Russian alphabet with additional letters. A transition to a Latin alphabet with additional letters started in the autumn 2000.

The standard for Cyrillic Tatar fonts based on the Windows 1251 encoding was accepted by the government of Tatarstan in 1996. The Cyrillic Tatar alphabet is supported by the Windows 2000 and XP operation systems in accordance with the Unicode standard. The Cyrillic Tatar encoding is also supported by the Eurasian fonts.

  • KeyEurasian — Keyboard layout for Cyrillic Tatar fonts (Windows 95/98/ME)
  • KeyEurasian32 — Keyboard layout for Cyrillic Tatar fonts (Windows NT4/2000/XP)
  • KeyEurasian32U — Unicode-based keyboard layout for the Cyrillic Tatar alphabet (Windows NT4/2000/XP)
  • KeyTatLat — Keyboard layout for Latin-based Tatar fonts (Windows 95/98/ME)

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Use the test page to check whether your font supports the Cyrillic Tatar standard.

Tuvan

Russian alphabet with additional letters. Supported by the Unicode standard, Eurasian fonts. It is also possible to use fonts for the Bashkir, Kazakh, Kirghiz and Tatar languages.

Udmurt

Russian alphabet with additional letters. Supported by the Unicode standard, Uralic fonts.

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Veps

Latin alphabet with additional letters. Supported by the Latin 2 encoding. Vepsians use the Czech keyboard layout.

Yakut

Russian alphabet with additional letters. Supported by the Unicode standard, Sakha fonts.

Unicode

The standard Unicode 3.0 supports the vast majority of minority languages with Russian-based alphabets. Until now, however, there have not been fonts with the necessary additional characters, creating Unicode documents has been difficult. With the introduction of new Unicode-based operations systems (Windows NT4, 2000, XP) the situation is likely to gradually change.

Unicode-fonts with Cyrillic letters

Use the test page to check which Unicode characters are supported by your font.


Created by [email protected]
Updated 12.09.2004