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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Lopatina writingSystem Cyrillic script
Kabardino-Cherkess writingSystem Cyrillic script
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Veles writingSystem Cyrillic script
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subject surface form: Pikalov
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Zoran writingSystem Cyrillic script
Verkhnyaya Salda writingSystem Cyrillic script
Serov writingSystem Cyrillic script
Kirovgrad writingSystem Cyrillic script
Shlyapnikov writingSystem Cyrillic script
Mezdra writingSystem Cyrillic script
Bulgarian Empire writingSystem Cyrillic script
Cherven Bryag writingSystem Cyrillic script
Nemtsova writingSystem Cyrillic script
Vereya writingSystem Cyrillic script
Sretensk writingSystem Cyrillic script
Rozhdestvensky writingSystem Cyrillic script
Khokhlov writingSystem Cyrillic script
Khokhlov writingSystem Cyrillic script
subject surface form: Khokhlova
Tolbukhin writingSystem Cyrillic script
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Yashin writingSystem Cyrillic script
Bulgarian Wikipedia writingSystem Cyrillic script
Bulgarian Wiktionary writingSystem Cyrillic script
Bulgarian Wikivoyage writingSystem Cyrillic script
Russian Wikinews writingSystem Cyrillic script
Nova Pazova writingSystem Cyrillic script
Orlyk writingSystem Cyrillic script
Ruma writingSystem Cyrillic script
Shchekochikhin writingSystem Cyrillic script
Aguls writingSystem Cyrillic script
Mitrović writingSystem Cyrillic script
Korotkova writingSystem Cyrillic script
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subject surface form: Milinković-Savić (surname)
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Suvorovo writingSystem Cyrillic script
Karnobat writingSystem Cyrillic script
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Fokin writingSystem Cyrillic script
Serafima writingSystem Cyrillic script
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