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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city of Gavrilov-Yam writingSystem Cyrillic script
subject surface form: Gavrilov-Yam
Kologriv writingSystem Cyrillic script
Pechersky writingSystem Cyrillic script
Pernik writingSystem Cyrillic script
Rila town writingSystem Cyrillic script
Ivan Sratsimir usedScript Cyrillic script
Pohvistnevo hasScript Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic
Izhorians writingSystem Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic alphabet
Buryat language writingSystem Cyrillic script
Oirat language hasWritingSystem Cyrillic script
Greeks of Azov writingSystem Cyrillic script
Evenki language writingSystem Cyrillic script
Even language writingSystem Cyrillic script
Negidal language writingSystem Cyrillic script
Orok language writingSystem Cyrillic script
Nanai language writingSystem Cyrillic script
Udege language writingSystem Cyrillic script
Komi writingSystem Cyrillic script
Kotlas writingSystem Cyrillic script
Belarusian language writingSystem Cyrillic script
Vladimira hasWritingSystem Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic alphabet
Chudovo writingSystem Cyrillic script
Baklanov writingSystem Cyrillic script
Kursk writingSystem Cyrillic script
Sokol writingSystemUsed Cyrillic script
Middle Bulgarian writingSystem Cyrillic script
Smolyan writingSystem Cyrillic script
Torlakian dialects writingSystem Cyrillic script
Central Siberian Yupik writingSystem Cyrillic script
Divnogorsk writingSystem Cyrillic script
Göklen Turkmen usesScript Cyrillic script
Uyghur Cyrillic alphabet scriptFamily Cyrillic script
Eastern Sámi languages writingSystem Cyrillic script
Pomor Russian writingSystem Cyrillic script
Uralic > Sami > Eastern Sami > Ter Sámi writingSystem Cyrillic script
subject surface form: Ter Sámi
tk (macrolanguage) writingSystem Cyrillic script
Юрий writingSystem Cyrillic script
Turkmen Cyrillic alphabet scriptFamily Cyrillic script
Vera writingSystem Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic alphabet
Glagoleva writingSystem Cyrillic script
Unangam Tunuu writingSystem Cyrillic script
Vladislav writingSystem Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic
Peshkov writingSystem Cyrillic script
St. Lawrence Island Yupik writingSystem Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic alphabet (historically, in Siberia)
Sremski Karlovci writingSystem Cyrillic script
Sedova writingSystem Cyrillic script
Sokolovskaya writingSystem Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic
Vyazemsky usedScript Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic
Marko writingSystem Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic alphabet