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Cyrillic alphabet

Cyrillic
Romanian Cyrillic - Lord's Prayer text.svg
Type
Languages

National script of:


 Belarus
 Bosnia and Herzegovina (also Latin)
 Bulgaria
 Kazakhstan
 Kyrgyzstan
 Macedonia
 Mongolia (also Mongolian Script)
 Montenegro (also Latin)
 Russia
 Serbia
 Tajikistan
 Ukraine
(see Languages using Cyrillic)
Time period
Earliest variants exist c. 940
Parent systems
Sister systems
Latin alphabet
Coptic alphabet
Armenian alphabet
Georgian alphabet
Glagolitic alphabet
Direction Left-to-right
ISO 15924 Cyrl, 220
Cyrs (Old Church Slavonic variant)
Unicode alias
Cyrillic

National script of:

The Cyrillic script /sˈrɪlɪk/ is a writing system used for various alphabets across eastern Europe and north and central Asia. It is based on the Early Cyrillic, which was developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 9th century AD at the Preslav Literary School. It is the basis of alphabets used in various languages, past and present, in parts of southeastern Europe and northern Eurasia, especially those of Slavic origin, and non-Slavic languages influenced by Russian. As of 2011, around 252 million people in Eurasia use it as the official alphabet for their national languages, with Russia accounting for about half of them. With the accession of Bulgaria to the European Union on 1 January 2007, Cyrillic became the third official script of the European Union, following the Latin script and Greek script.

Cyrillic is derived from the Greek uncial script, augmented by letters from the older Glagolitic alphabet, including some ligatures. These additional letters were used for Old Church Slavonic sounds not found in Greek. The script is named in honor of the two Byzantine brothers,Saints Cyril and Methodius, who created the Glagolitic alphabet earlier on. Modern scholars believe that Cyrillic was developed and formalized by early disciples of Cyril and Methodius.


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