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 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

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Stoichkov writingSystem Cyrillic script
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Zamyn-Üüd writingSystem Cyrillic script
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Dušanovac writingSystem Cyrillic script
Lezgin writingSystem Cyrillic script
Aleut language writingSystem Cyrillic script
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Northwestern Mari writingSystem Cyrillic script
Eastern Mari writingSystem Cyrillic script
Pivnički writingSystem Cyrillic script
Drobnjaković writingSystem Cyrillic script
Tavgi language writingSystem Cyrillic script
Udmurts writingSystem Cyrillic script
Vreoci writingSystem Cyrillic script
Chiprovtsi writingSystem Cyrillic script
Molotovsk writingSystem Cyrillic script
Lvovich writingSystem Cyrillic script
Meljak writingSystem Cyrillic script
Tomislav writingSystem Cyrillic script
Kikinda writingSystem Cyrillic script
Troyan writingSystem Cyrillic script
Bajina Bašta writingSystem Cyrillic script
Beketov writingSystem Cyrillic script
Rušanj writingSystem Cyrillic script
Torbeshi writingSystem Cyrillic script
Erzya people writingSystem Cyrillic script
Pece writingSystem Cyrillic script
Ratko writingSystem Cyrillic script
Mladić writingSystem Cyrillic script
town of Sliven writingSystem Cyrillic script
subject surface form: Sliven
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Radomir writingSystem Cyrillic script
Moksha people writingSystem Cyrillic script
Karelians writingSystem Cyrillic script