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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Bulgarian Cyrillic alphabet UnicodeBlock Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic
Mongolian tögrög writingSystem Cyrillic script
MNT writingSystem Cyrillic script
Unicode 5.1 addsSupportFor Cyrillic script
Cyrillic Extended-C relatedBlock Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic
Savski Venac writingSystem Cyrillic script
Rusyn Cyrillic alphabet scriptFamily Cyrillic script
Rusyn Cyrillic alphabet basedOn Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Russian Cyrillic alphabet
Rusyn Cyrillic alphabet basedOn Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Church Slavonic Cyrillic tradition
Nikopol writingSystem Cyrillic script
Bashkir Cyrillic alphabet basedOn Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Russian alphabet
Dmytro writingSystem Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic
Evenks usesScript Cyrillic script
Adyghe scriptUsedForLanguage Cyrillic script
ISO/IEC 8859 designedFor Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic alphabet
Apswa scriptUsed Cyrillic script
Unicode 4.1 refinesExistingScripts Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic
Samoyedic languages hasWritingSystem Cyrillic script
Mari language writingSystem Cyrillic script
Nadezhda writingSystem Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic
Pamiris useScript Cyrillic script
Mykola writingSystem Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic
Bosnian Cyrillic derivedFrom Cyrillic script
Xenia hasWritingSystem Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic alphabet
Semin writingSystem Cyrillic script
Torbeši scriptUsedForLanguage Cyrillic script
Čukarica writingSystem Cyrillic script
Erzya language hasWritingSystem Cyrillic script
Karluk branch hasWritingTradition Cyrillic script
Lopatin writingSystem Cyrillic script
Khanty people writingSystem Cyrillic script
Khokhlova writingSystem Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic
Manevychi usesWritingSystem Cyrillic script
Anastas writingSystem Cyrillic script
Bulgarian Wikinews writingSystem Cyrillic script
Dragaš writingSystem Cyrillic script
Urzhum writingSystemUsed Cyrillic script
Komarov writingSystem Cyrillic script
Danilova writingSystem Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic
Aleksandr usedInWritingSystem Cyrillic script
Юрий (Cyrillic alphabet) writingSystem Cyrillic script
subject surface form: Юрий
this entity surface form: Cyrillic alphabet
Rotor writingSystem Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic
Tat people writingSystem Cyrillic script
Sverdlov writingSystem Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic
Yura writingSystem Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic
Karakalpak writingSystem Cyrillic script
Serbo-Croatian hasWritingSystem Cyrillic script
Horokhiv usesAlphabet Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic