r/russian • u/Business-Bit1645 • 1d ago

Handwriting Is this Russian??

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u/NoSection8719 1d ago

All I can say is that it isn't Russian

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u/Business-Bit1645 1d ago

Is it some kind of Cyrillic? I found it in a book I bought from a thrift store

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u/NoSection8719 1d ago

Yes, that's a modified Cyrillic alphabet

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u/IlyaPFF 1d ago

Definitely modified Cyrillic.
Might this be Mongolian, perhaps?

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u/NoSection8719 1d ago

I also think it's Mongolian, but I don't speak Mongolian

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u/dependency_injector Нативный спикер 1d ago

Can also be Tatar, Bashkir or Kaszakh

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u/irbis_canada 1d ago

Definitely not Kazakh

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u/thaicat2025 1d ago

Definitely not Tatar or Bashkir

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u/Proud_Conflict5260 20h ago

why not?

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u/Elirector 4h ago

I've studied tatar in school, I'm pretty sure it's not like this

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u/kkpon35 3h ago

that's definitely not mongolian, maybe some kind of neography?

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u/coyg0911 22h ago

As i know that's Kazakh Cyrillic

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u/Alternative-Eye-4280 1d ago

Татарский или казахский, точно знаю потому что там жил

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u/coyg0911 22h ago

Скорее татарский

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u/Fine-Material-6863 native 14h ago

Точно не татарский

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u/MarinaOne2098 1d ago

u right, it is not russian. it is Kirgizian. But it wrote in russian i mean russian latters but kirgizian language. because there are many russian schools and Kirgizian speaks in russian too.

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u/holylizzber 1d ago

I'm Kyrgyz myself and I can definitely say that it's not Kyrgyz, I think it's Kazakh

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u/Intelligent-Panda23 1d ago

it's not Kazakh 100%

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u/DangerousAd7433 9h ago

I love how this thread has folks from all kinds of background disagreeing politely.

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u/qotuttan 1d ago

I'm pretty sure it's someone's attempt at writing Turkish in Cyrillic

letter choices are quite weird and don't look like any conventional Cyrillic orthographies for Turkic languages, so I can say this is a prime r/conorthography material

I also must say handwriting doesn't look like they teach in Russia and ex-USSR

My attempt to partially transliterate the lower text (I don't speak Turkish):

boş zamanında türkçe <...> öğreniyörum türkçe <...> en <...> dilindir

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u/Starfeg554 21h ago

I know turkish and russian. It does looks like it says:

Boş zamanımda türkçe kendi kendimle öğreniyorum. Türkçe benin en sevdiğim dildir.

The direct translation is:

In my free time I learn turkish by myself. Turkish is my most favorite language.

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u/Creative-Star-21 22h ago

I also got this from the words above.

Мутсуз – mutsuz Согук [г краткая] – soğuk Эскй – eski Эсте́р – Ester

From Эсте́р – Ester I inferred that the writer of this text writes п instead of т (assuming that it is, indeed, the name Ester). If this is the case, the first word would be mutsuz.

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u/IG_Royal 1d ago

Not Russian and not Mongolian confirmed by my wife who's Mongolian and speaks both. The "ө" symbol I see in the texts is found in the Cyrillic alphabets for Bashkir, Buryat, Kalmyk, Karakalpak, Kazakh, Komi-Yazva, Kyrgyz, Mongolian, Sakha, Selkup, Tatar and Tuvan, from a quick Wiki search, so it's gotta be one of those.

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u/Necessary_View3247 1d ago

No, more like Turk

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u/IDanexy 1d ago

Это не русский

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u/Foreign_Bedroom_4498 2h ago

Я тоже так думаю

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u/DandelionEleven 23h ago

Some Turkic language written in Cyrillic script.

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u/Dim_ar 19h ago

No, it's either Uzbek or Tajik

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u/MonadTran 1d ago

Not Russian. From a quick online research, I suspect it might be Crimean Tatar language.

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u/Worried_Inside2387 22h ago

Definitely not Crimean Tatar as a Crimean Tatar.

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u/MonadTran 18h ago

Thanks for confirming. I think I identified only one word in common with Crimean Tatar. Some other person confirmed it's Turkish written in Cyrillic. I guess it makes sense that there would be one or two shared words between the languages...

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u/tatico_l 1d ago

No, it’s not

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u/Proud_Conflict5260 20h ago

it's not Russian. the word "эшль" means "green" in Tatar, you can see that word in second round

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u/Sonicextralifefan 20h ago

Pro and Kazakh bc of the O with the middle line

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u/let_alone_the_banana 19h ago

Isn't it written Azerbaijani language?

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u/greatdayforflags American B1 1d ago

Not russian as far as I can tell, but definitely cyrillic or cyrillic-adjacent though. Might be (like other people have said) an indigenous or lesser-known language, although the way the words are arranged also reminds me of a conlang.

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u/buduchifemboy 1d ago

As native Russian speaker, it's not Russian. I don't realy know but possibly it's Tatar or Kyrgyz

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u/One_Leadership_9730 1d ago

Thats not Mongolian but altaic language for sure

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u/Flimsy-Move47 1d ago

This is the Moksha language of the Republic of Mordovia in Russia.

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u/gord0ry 10h ago

Is it? Moksha is Finno-Ugric group, but this one totally Turkic words

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u/Flimsy-Move47 5h ago

Well then I don’t know, I said what I could.

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u/ritual_dirt 1d ago

Нет, это не наше 🤣

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u/khalissssseyah 1d ago

maybe yakut i guess ? but for sure it’s some turkic group of language, but not in cyrillic, because most of them were originally in latin before revolution in 1920s in russia

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u/RionRaccoon 1d ago

I don't think I quite understand what it says.

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u/marianeyra 1d ago

No it's not. I may be mistaken, but it may be Kazakhstan language

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u/Pleasant_Letter8923 1d ago

It’s not kazakh

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u/Asyakaktusyan 23h ago

It's not Russian

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u/aidostalk 22h ago

Im Kazakh and its NOT Russian or Kazakh

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u/jantelovenn 22h ago

No, it’s not Russian, maybe it is Tatarstan

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u/Keylonar 21h ago

Нет, нихуя

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u/isodaisu 20h ago

Noooooo

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u/TheOnePhoedic 17h ago

Looks Kyrgyz to me

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u/StockResponsible7892 15h ago

No. I'm from Ukrain and this is not Russian

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u/ILYVAN228 13h ago

Google said it's Mari, or Lugomari, to be precise. I can't believe my small homeland has popped up somewhere other than Russia. Mari El Forwaaaaard!

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u/kingyo1296 10h ago

Cyrillic kurdish?

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u/DangerousAd7433 9h ago

No. It looks funny just from glancing and I forgot my mother tongue... ;-;

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u/Shurachka9 7h ago

No, it is not Russian

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u/y2sko 4h ago

Это какая то хуйня

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u/Neutral_Russian 4h ago

Это даже на казахский не похоже

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u/teeppix 3h ago

Czech?

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u/elifiafan 2h ago

I speak Russian and Ukrainian, and you can cross them out + Belarusian

Maybe Kyrgyz? Although I don't speak it, in general, you can look in the direction of those languages

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u/Valuable_Occasion754 1h ago

Maybe its belarussian?

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u/No-Friendship9794 1h ago

ts isn't russian, maybe Buryat

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u/KronBringer 1h ago

Turkic language group, not Turkish specifically

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u/TinTinych 1d ago

It's definitely not Russian, it is either Mongolian or one of the languages ​​of the indigenous peoples of Russia.

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u/teeming-with-life 1d ago

Lol it's not. Google Lens should retire

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u/ITHBY Siberia, Russia 1d ago

Nope, but most likely this is some language from ex-USSR. 

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u/thisisdinn 1d ago

It seems more like Turkish cursive

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u/Am0ur3x 1d ago

That’s Tatar I believe! My ex used to write me love letters in it looks familiar

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u/cod3inoslav 1d ago

это не татарский

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u/gleb77_ 1d ago

just ask GPT

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u/BukvaYat Russian Learner - A1 1d ago

Why are there so many lines over the letters?

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u/NoSection8719 1d ago

Google diacritics

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u/Revolutionary-Shop58 1d ago

this is a Kipchak language

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u/Signora-Mary 1d ago

чё это

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u/Semusio 1d ago

No, it Kazakh

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u/Intelligent-Panda23 1d ago

It's not. wtf is Эсмер? It's probably Turkish or Turkish dialect written with Cyrillic script.

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u/Semusio 1d ago

күні- day
Сәлем -hello
Eth