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.

Yefimovich script Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic
Pavlik hasScript Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic alphabet
Nikitin writingSystem Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic
City of Niš writingSystem Cyrillic script
Shughni writingSystem Cyrillic script
Shor writingSystem Cyrillic script
Viktorovich script Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic
Siberian Tatar language hasWritingSystem Cyrillic script
Fyodor writingSystem Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic
Karluk languages writingSystemUsed Cyrillic script
Lyova writingSystem Cyrillic script
Nikolay writingSystem Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic
Karaims writingSystem Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic alphabet
Kumandin language writingSystem Cyrillic script
Slavic Orthodox Churches scriptTradition Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic alphabet
Bulganin writingSystem Cyrillic script
Tatar writingSystem Cyrillic script
subject surface form: Tatars
Kromï writingSystemForName Cyrillic script
Oleh writingSystem Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic alphabet
Malkin script Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic
European literature writtenInScript Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic alphabet
Semyon writingSystem Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic alphabet
Larisa writingSystem Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic
Vasyl writingSystem Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic
Holoborodko writingSystem Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic
Mari writingSystem Cyrillic script
subject surface form: Mari language
Hill Mari writingSystem Cyrillic script
Meadow Mari writingSystem Cyrillic script
Vsevolod writingSystem Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic
Svetlana writingSystem Cyrillic script
Tsakhurs writingSystem Cyrillic script
Avar-Andic languages hasWritingSystem Cyrillic script
Tsakhur language writingSystem Cyrillic script
Aleksandra writingSystem Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic alphabet
Godunov writingSystem Cyrillic script
Southern Tat writingSystem Cyrillic script
Caucasian Tat writingSystem Cyrillic script
Zhdanova writingSystem Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic
Mari people usesScript Cyrillic script
Wall of Love writingSystem Cyrillic script
Khodchenkova writingSystem Cyrillic script
Dolgoprudny writingSystem Cyrillic script
Vatutin writingSystem Cyrillic script
Gennady writingSystem Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic
Mordvins usesScript Cyrillic script
Piotrovsky writingSystem Cyrillic script
Buy writingSystem Cyrillic script
Natalya writingSystem Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic
Myshkin writingSystemUsed Cyrillic script