Cyrillic script

E3591
alphabet writing system

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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All labels observed (18)

Label Occurrences
Cyrillic script canonical 529
Cyrillic 44
Cyrillic alphabet 37

Statements (64)

Predicate Object
instanceOf alphabet ⓘ
writing system ⓘ
associatedWith Saint Methodius ⓘ
derivedFrom Greek alphabet ⓘ
developedFor Church Slavonic ⓘ
surface form: Old Church Slavonic language
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 ⓘ
surface form: Unicode Standard
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 ⓘ
North Asia ⓘ
surface form: Northern Asia

Siberia ⓘ
Balkans ⓘ
surface form: Southeastern Europe
writingDirection left-to-right ⓘ
writingSystemStatus living ⓘ
writingSystemType alphabetic ⓘ

Referenced by (627)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

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