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

South Slavs writingSystem Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic alphabet
Bulgarian language usesAlphabet Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic alphabet
Bulgarian language laterWritingSystem Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Early Cyrillic script
Nganasan languageWritingSystem Cyrillic script
Ter Sámi writingSystem Cyrillic script
Nikita hasWritingSystem Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic
Sergei writingSystem Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic
Unangan writingSystem Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic alphabet
Bosnian alsoWrittenIn Cyrillic script
Ludian language writingSystem Cyrillic script
Kyrgyz writingSystem Cyrillic script
Christianization of the Balkans usesScript Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic alphabet
Selkup usesScript Cyrillic script
Ter Sami writingSystem Cyrillic script
Permic languages writingSystem Cyrillic script
Yupik usesWritingSystem Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic alphabet
Balashikha writingSystemUsed Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic
Serbian cross scriptAssociation Cyrillic script
Serbian Cyrillic alphabet scriptFamily Cyrillic script
Serbian Cyrillic alphabet basedOn Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Church Slavonic Cyrillic script
Macedonians writingSystem Cyrillic script
Ирон (Iron) writingSystem Cyrillic script
subject surface form: Ирон
Ingush writingSystem Cyrillic script
Elena writingSystem Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic alphabet
Bishkek usesScriptForKyrgyz Cyrillic script
Mačva region hasWritingSystem Cyrillic script
Vasily writingSystemOfOrigin Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic alphabet
Zrenjanin writingSystemUsed Cyrillic script
Ulyanov writingSystem Cyrillic script
Southeastern Turkic hasWritingSystem Cyrillic script
Preslav writingSystem Cyrillic script
Tarnovo writingSystem Cyrillic script
Niš writingSystem Cyrillic script
Sakha (Yakut) people writingSystem Cyrillic script
subject surface form: Sakha people
Wikipedia puzzle globe hasWritingSystem Cyrillic script
Dargin hasWritingSystem Cyrillic script
Dargin writingSystemBasedOn Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Russian Cyrillic alphabet
Avar writingSystem Cyrillic script
Chukchi people writingSystem Cyrillic script
Northwest Caucasian languages hasWritingSystem Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic script (for some languages)
Kazakh SSR usedScriptForKazakh Cyrillic script
Bulgars laterWritingSystem Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic alphabet (via Christianization)
Аҧсуа бызшәа hasWritingSystem Cyrillic script
Pamir languages writingSystem Cyrillic script
Apsua scriptUsedForLanguage Cyrillic script
Altai people usesScript Cyrillic script
Volkhov writingSystem Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic
Bulgarian Cyrillic alphabet scriptFamily Cyrillic script