Komi alphabets

The Komi language, a Uralic language spoken in the north-eastern part of European Russia, has been written in several different alphabets. Currently, Komi writing uses letters from the Cyrillic script. There have been five distinct stages in the history of Komi writing:

• 14th to 17th centuries — Anbur, the original graphic system;
• 18th century to 1918 — based on the early Cyrillic alphabet;
• 1918 to 1932 and 1936 to 1938 — Vasily Molodtsov's alphabet based on the modified Cyrillic alphabet;
• 1932 to 1936 — Latinization of the alphabet;
• since 1938 — modern script based on the Cyrillic alphabet.

The Komi-Zyryan and Komi-Permyak sub-languages have used the same writing throughout almost all of their written history (except for the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th centuries).

Anbur[]

Anbur

Names of the city Syktyvkar in Cyrillic (left, Сыктывкар) and Anbur (right,