The Greeks too should get to use their own script too.

I wonder if Latin is more for the benefit of the refs and other officials?

Si

English will become the language of the world. But don't take my word for it, I also think serif's days are numbered....

Subtitles.

$$$ + €€€ ≠ Cyrillic

It doesn't go very well with business picture of your company and it's not practical from some point.

I tried to find does Coca-Cola have Cyrillic version of packages for Cyrillic countries and found only a Russian version for some Olympic Games (not sure which one). And found that Coca-Cola in Bulgaria, in 1965 made one advert using Cyrillic as part of label:

http://en.coca-colahellenic.bg/Aboutus/History/

It's interesting, cause they have it, beside on English (Latin), for Arabic market adapted officially, but not for Cyrillic.

I noticed a book in my local library entitled "English: the last lingua franca". I think the title is a good one; for the moment, English is indeed the world's dominant language. But eventually, they will improve Google translate, and people will no longer bother to learn foreign languages... for the same reason that schools no longer spend as much time teaching the intricacies of long division.

I think this is liberating; while I enjoy my fortunate status as a native speaker of English, I wish everyone else to share my good fortune in their own language - to have access to the world's literature without having to learn other languages.

I thought that was official…

I thought that was official…

That one I found also. Not sure if that's official look of Russian C-C those days. It have "Olympic Games" logo on it...

The making of money always trumps typographic accuracy ;-)

@Jens – Once I found a team list, I managed to stumble my way through despite my Mad Cyrillic Skillz. (Note to future reader: "Mad X Skillz" implies near non-existence of said skill.)

That looks a bit like masking tape!

I do really like the Czech blackletter

That looks a bit like masking tape

There’s a font for that ;-)
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/phospho/adhesive-nr-seven/

By the way, it reminds me of the London Olympics identity too.

Now all we need is old style figures

Like in car plates?
(Here there would be a link to a recent thread on using old style numerals on license plates. But it looks it’s impossible to retrieve it, be it with Google, Bing, or DuckDuckGo).

Edit: Found it (http://typophile.com/node/93625) by accident in my bookmarks.

Phonological diaeresis, such as accents or umlauts, are permitted.

How liberal of them!

But then if we made every country do cyrillic there would be the question of which cyrillic. There's no way you'd get countries like Serbia to use Russian-cyrillic, for example (not if you don't want a fist fight that is, lol)

Aside from that (given that cyillic is only used by orthodox christian slavic countries), I'm baffled why the shirts use "sh" in place of "š" and "ch" in place of "č" or "ć"

But then if we made every country do cyrillic there would be the question of which cyrillic. There's no way you'd get countries like Serbia to use Russian-cyrillic, for example (not if you don't want a fist fight that is, lol)

Haha. Don’t exaggerate. There are no really significant differences in the style of letterforms between Serbian and Russian (or, more correctly, International) Cyrillic. However, there are differences in Cyrillic transliteration. For example, this is how the word ‘Cyrillic’ looks in seven Slavic languages using Cyrillic script:

cyillic is only used by orthodox christian slavic countries

Not so: you can hardly consider Kumyk, Nanai, Buriat, Dungan, and many, many other peoples either orthodox Christian or Slavic.

you can hardly consider Kumyk, Nanai, Buriat, Dungan, and many, many other peoples either orthodox Christian or Slavic.

Nor can you consider them Russian. Even if they live close to Russia, or in Russia.

Nor can you consider them Russian. Even if they live close to Russia, or in Russia.

true, my statement should be amended to say orthodox slavic countries or regions that were influenced by them an adopted the alphabet as a result of long term contact

Cyrillic is used in a number of majority Muslim Turkic countries, for instance Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. Or were you referring specifically to countries participating in Euro 2012?

again, "stan" countries, meaning previously Russian country until the USSR was dissolved.

Cyrillic was developed in the Bulgarian empire in the 10th Century AD and it is the basis of many slavic alphabets. Instances where it might not be a slavic language are due to Russian influences where the countries/republics/regions adopted the alphabet as a result of contact with Russians.

I don't think anyone is denying the central influence of Russia in the spread of the Cyrillic writing system to other peoples of the Soviet Union, but that's not what you originally said. You stated 'cyillic is only used by orthodox christian slavic countries', and that is what I was querying, because that has not been true for the better part of 100 years. If all you meant was that the Cyrillic writing system developed within the cultural framework of Orthodox Christian Slavic countries, then we don't disagree.