At what point would history have to have diverged for English

> for English to be written in Cyrillic
Why would you do this shit? I bet Cyrillic isn't really suitable ФOP EHГЛИCХ.

>>1789595
Considering it's used in unrelated languages like Mongolian, Abkhaz, and in some cases Kurdish, it seems пpыти дapн aдэптэбл.

>>1789595
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>Soviet Union completely taking over Western Europe after WWII
Too late and not their thing. They were about ideological domination, not Russification.

It would have to have happened very early. Between Kievan Rus and the 15th century.

Say the Mongols somehow convert to Orthodoxy after making contact with the Rus. They become zealous orthodox, set about establishing God's kingdom on earth, from Kiev to Mongolia, including all the Turkic tribes. They also think that Old Church Slavonic is the language of Orthodoxy and Cyrillic are mysterious and cool holy sigils that Orthodox people use. So now instead of having to fight against the Turks, the Byzantine Empire wins an ally against Islam. Together they easily establish dominance over the Middle East, Black Sea region, Silk Road and all trade routes. 14th Century. The Crisis of the Late Middle Ages kick in. The Papacy is weakened. Now it's the time to heal the schism, by going after the Papits heretics at Rome. Orthodoxy becomes the religion of the entire Ecumene. The old power Mongol upper class is far in the past by now. A struggle for power had ensued between the Greeks and the Rus, and the Rus somehow win. Tough times, but they still manage to keep the empire together, or perhaps there is a partition between Greeks and Rus, with the Rus getting Central and Western Europe and the Greeks keeping part of Asia and the Middle East. Now there's a Rus upper class in Western Europe, having to deal with, among other things Catholic insurgents, sneaky Italian city states, and of course the Eternal Anglo (and Irish). A final crack down on the last Catholic bastions on the British Isles eventually follows. The war is so gruesome that the victorious Orthodox side makes the British adopt Cyrillic in order to brainwash the future generations into never thinking about Catholicism again. A good old ethnic cleasing with mass immigration of Slavs does the last icing on the cake. English is now written using the Cyrillic alphabet.

And what about Arabic script? Chinese characters?

>Scandinavia gets Christianity from the Byzantine Empire
>Orthodox Scandinavia conquers England

>Arabs manage to defeat the Franks and expand into southern England at least
Difficult, but a temporary expansion of a few decades after which they are driven away is enough for some Muslim scholars to try to write something in Old English.

>>1791360
I don't think Chinese characters can be used to transliterated English. They would have to adopt the Chinese language.

>>1791491
Japanese is written in a mixture of Chinese characters and kana, no? And Korean was traditionally written in hanja mixed script... Vietnamese traditionally used chu nom... Zhuang used to use its own chu nom-like system (and sometimes still does)...