Cyrillic script

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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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Observed surface forms (10)

Surface form Occurrences
Cyrillic alphabet 18
Cyrillic 7
Church Slavonic Cyrillic script 1

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 (77)

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

Kyrgyz → writingSystem → Cyrillic script ⓘ
Ludian language → writingSystem → Cyrillic script ⓘ
Macedonians → writingSystem → Cyrillic script ⓘ
Montenegrins → writingSystem → Cyrillic script ⓘ
Old East Slavic → writingSystem → Cyrillic script ⓘ
Ossetians → writingSystem → Cyrillic script ⓘ
Pavel → writingSystem → Cyrillic script ⓘ
this entity surface form: Cyrillic
Permic languages → writingSystem → Cyrillic script ⓘ
Rusyn language → writingSystem → Cyrillic script ⓘ
Rusyns → writingSystem → Cyrillic script ⓘ
Serbs → writingSystem → Cyrillic script ⓘ
this entity surface form: Serbian Cyrillic alphabet
Sergei → writingSystem → Cyrillic script ⓘ
this entity surface form: Cyrillic
Slavs → writingSystem → Cyrillic script ⓘ
South Slavs → writingSystem → Cyrillic script ⓘ
this entity surface form: Cyrillic alphabet
Tajiks → writingSystem → Cyrillic script ⓘ
Ter Sami → writingSystem → Cyrillic script ⓘ
Ter Sámi → writingSystem → Cyrillic script ⓘ
Turkmen language → writingSystem → Cyrillic script ⓘ
this entity surface form: Cyrillic alphabet
Unangan → writingSystem → Cyrillic script ⓘ
this entity surface form: Cyrillic alphabet
Uzbek → writingSystem → Cyrillic script ⓘ
Yuri → writingSystem → Cyrillic script ⓘ
Ирон (Iron) → writingSystem → Cyrillic script ⓘ
subject surface form: Ирон
Balashikha → writingSystemUsed → Cyrillic script ⓘ
this entity surface form: Cyrillic
Iranian languages → writingSystemUsed → Cyrillic script ⓘ
Mongolic languages → writingSystemUsed → Cyrillic script ⓘ