Old Permic alphabet by usual writing. The inclusion of the latter aided the alphabet in greater acceptance among the medieval Permic speakers of the time. The alphabet was in use until the 17th century, when it was superseded by the Cyrillic script. Abur was also used as cryptographic writing for the Russian language. April 26, which is the saint's day of Stephen of Perm, is celebrated as Old Permic Alphabet Day. The Abur inscriptions are among the oldest relics of the Uralic languages. Only one of them has earlier documents: Hungarian, which had been written using the Old Hungarian script first before the
Zazaki alphabet in 1903. After 1980s, American philologist C. M. Jacobson created an alphabet for Zaza language and this alphabet named as Jacobson alphabet and widely in use for Zazaki. Zazaki alphabet The Zazaki alphabet is an extension of the Latin alphabet used for writing the Zaza language, consisting of 32 letters, seven of which (Ç, Ğ, I, İ, Ü, Ş, and Ê) have been modified from their Latin originals for the phonetic requirements of the language. The letters of the Zazaki alphabet are: Zazaki language was written using a Persian form of the Arabic script in Ahmad al-Hasi's work "Mewlıdê Nebi"