Cyrillic script

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The Cyrillic script is an alphabetic writing system used for many Slavic and other Eurasian languages, including Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, and Ukrainian.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf alphabet
writing system
associatedWith Saint Methodius
derivedFrom Greek alphabet
developedFor Old Church Slavonic language
linked to: Church Slavonic
developedIn First Bulgarian Empire
developedInCentury 10th century
hasApproximateNumberOfLetters 30 in Bulgarian alphabet
30 in Serbian Cyrillic alphabet
33 in Russian alphabet
33 in Ukrainian alphabet
hasUppercaseAndLowercase true
influencedBy Glagolitic script
ISO15924Code Cyrl
namedAfter Saint Cyril
officialScriptOf Belarus
Bulgaria
Kazakhstan (historically and currently in transition)
Kyrgyzstan
North Macedonia
Russia
Serbia
Tajikistan
Ukraine
recognizedBy Unicode Standard
linked to: Unicode
scriptFamily Cyrillic
unicodeBlock Cyrillic
Cyrillic Extended-A
Cyrillic Extended-B
Cyrillic Extended-C
Cyrillic Supplement
usedBy Iranian languages
Mongolic languages
Slavic languages
Turkic languages
Uralic languages
usedFor Abkhaz language
Bashkir language
Belarusian language
Bulgarian Sign Language (written form)
Bulgarian language
Chechen language
Church Slavonic language
Chuvash language
Kazakh language
Kyrgyz language
Macedonian language
Mongolian language
Ossetian language
Russian language
Rusyn language
Serbian language
Tajik language
Tatar language
Ukrainian language
usedInRegion Caucasus
Central Asia
Eastern Europe
Northern Asia
linked to: North Asia

Siberia
Southeastern Europe
linked to: Balkans
writingDirection left-to-right
writingSystemStatus living
writingSystemType alphabetic

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Russian language usesAlphabet Russian Cyrillic alphabet
linked to: Cyrillic script
Persian language scriptVariant Tajik Cyrillic script
linked to: Cyrillic script
Crimean Tatars scriptUsed Cyrillic alphabet
linked to: Cyrillic script
Judeo-Tat script Cyrillic script
Belarusians usesWritingSystem Cyrillic script
Aleut writingSystem Cyrillic alphabet
linked to: Cyrillic script
Balochi hasWritingSystem Cyrillic script
Turkmenistan formerScript Cyrillic alphabet
linked to: Cyrillic script
Azerbaijani language historicalScript Cyrillic alphabet
linked to: Cyrillic script
Turkmen language writingSystem Cyrillic alphabet
linked to: Cyrillic script
Turkmen language previousOfficialScript Cyrillic alphabet
linked to: Cyrillic script
Serbs writingSystem Serbian Cyrillic alphabet
linked to: Cyrillic script
Ossetians writingSystem Cyrillic script
Greek alphabet influenced Cyrillic alphabet
linked to: Cyrillic script
Iranian languages writingSystemUsed Cyrillic script
Old East Slavic writingSystem Cyrillic script
Tajiks writingSystem Cyrillic script
Kazakh language writingSystem Kazakh Cyrillic alphabet
linked to: Cyrillic script
Ossetian language currentlyWrittenIn Cyrillic script
First Bulgarian Empire writingSystem Cyrillic script
First Bulgarian Empire significantEvent Creation of Cyrillic script
linked to: Cyrillic script
Uzbek writingSystem Cyrillic script
Rusyn language writingSystem Cyrillic script
Cyrillic Extended-B relatedBlock Cyrillic
linked to: Cyrillic script
Abkhazians scriptUsedHistorically Cyrillic script
Eskimo–Aleut languages writingSystem Cyrillic script
Uralic languages hasWritingSystem Cyrillic script
Bulgarians writingSystem Cyrillic script
Bulgarians traditionalAlphabet Cyrillic alphabet
linked to: Cyrillic script
Montenegrins writingSystem Cyrillic script
Kurdish language writingSystem Cyrillic script
Podgorica usesAlphabet Cyrillic alphabet
linked to: Cyrillic script
East Slavic languages writingSystem Cyrillic script
Mikhail alphabet Cyrillic
linked to: Cyrillic script
Rusyns writingSystem Cyrillic script
Slavs writingSystem Cyrillic script
Yuri writingSystem Cyrillic script
Turkic world hasWritingSystems Cyrillic script
Pavel writingSystem Cyrillic
linked to: Cyrillic script
Gagauz historicalWritingSystem Cyrillic alphabet
linked to: Cyrillic script
Kazakhs writingSystem Cyrillic script (Kazakh alphabet)
linked to: Cyrillic script
Wiszniew, Second Polish Republic usedScriptForLocalNames Cyrillic alphabet
linked to: Cyrillic script
Andriy writingSystem Cyrillic
linked to: Cyrillic script
.rf associatedScript Cyrillic alphabet
linked to: Cyrillic script
Mongolic languages writingSystemUsed Cyrillic script
East Slavs writingSystem Cyrillic script