Most of the lowercase Cyrillic letters are just smaller version of the uppercase ones. And neither the German nor the Russian alphabet is larger to any extent t

Most of the lowercase Cyrillic letters are just smaller version of the uppercase ones. And neither the German nor the Russian alphabet is larger to any extent that matters. CJKV languages are a bit more subtle subject. Vietnamese nowadays uses a romance-inspired alphabet, where only the tone marks are slightly difficult to typeset. Japanese and Korean could have gotten rid of Kanji/Ganja if they really wanted. But in any case printing technology for Chinese characters existed and was in wide use at the turn of the 20th century.