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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Wallachians writingSystem Cyrillic script
Loznitsa writingSystem Cyrillic script
Yakoruda writingSystem Cyrillic script
Dunja writingSystem Cyrillic script
Mijatović writingSystem Cyrillic script
Kalyazin writingSystem Cyrillic script
Leskovac writingSystem Cyrillic script
Mongolian writingSystem Cyrillic script
Negidal people writingSystem Cyrillic script
Branko writingSystem Cyrillic script
Arseny writingSystem Cyrillic script
Tsakhuri writingSystem Cyrillic script
subject surface form: Tsakhur language
Lipetsk writingSystem Cyrillic script
Godunova writingSystem Cyrillic script
Steklov writingSystem Cyrillic script
Orest writingSystem Cyrillic script
ЛП writingSystem Cyrillic script
Ket language writingSystem Cyrillic script
City of Pancevo writingSystem Cyrillic script
subject surface form: City of Pančevo
Piotrovskaya writingSystem Cyrillic script
Ignatyev writingSystem Cyrillic script
Karanovac writingSystem Cyrillic script
seal of Saint Petersburg writingSystem Cyrillic script
Tat-Southern writingSystem Cyrillic script
Bela Crkva writingSystem Cyrillic script
Coat of arms of Buryatia writingSystem Cyrillic script