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.

Matija hasScript Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic alphabet
BLR representsCountryWritingSystem Cyrillic script
Zinovy writingSystem Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic
Ludic people usesWritingSystem Cyrillic script
Ludian hasWritingSystem Cyrillic script
Khanty language writingSystem Cyrillic script
Northern Mansi writingSystem Cyrillic script
Vogul language writingSystem Cyrillic script
Trinity Chronicle writingSystem Cyrillic script
Fyodorov writingSystem Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic
Udege people writingSystem Cyrillic script
Kyrgyz people writingSystem Cyrillic script
Brezhneva writingSystem Cyrillic script
Central Ludian hasWritingSystem Cyrillic script
Eastern Mansi writingSystem Cyrillic script
Ukrainian Cyrillic alphabet historicalOrigin Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Old Cyrillic alphabet
Ukrainian Cyrillic alphabet basedOn Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Early Cyrillic alphabet
Gorna Oryahovitsa writingSystem Cyrillic script
Byala writingSystem Cyrillic script
Gabrovo writingSystem Cyrillic script
Lipovan Russians usesScript Cyrillic script
Volkova writingSystem Cyrillic script
Kragujevac writingSystem Cyrillic script
Alekseyev writingSystem Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic
North Karelian writingSystem Cyrillic script
Olonets Karelian writingSystem Cyrillic script
Ainu language writingSystem Cyrillic script
Oirat people writingSystem Cyrillic script
Svilajnac writingSystem Cyrillic script
Smederevo writingSystem Cyrillic script
Southern Ludian hasWritingSystem Cyrillic script
Mansi people writingSystem Cyrillic script
Krakolye dialect writingSystem Cyrillic script
Karelian Cyrillic alphabet basedOn Cyrillic script
Nenets language writingSystem Cyrillic script
Enets language writingSystem Cyrillic script
Mikhaylovich writingSystem Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic
Slavic states sharesAlphabetTraditions Cyrillic script
Kocani writingSystem Cyrillic script
Southern Mansi writingSystem Cyrillic script
Principality of Chernigov writingSystem Cyrillic script
Kravchuk writingSystem Cyrillic script
Selkup language hasWritingSystem Cyrillic script
Batov writingSystem Cyrillic script
Ingrian language writingSystem Cyrillic script
Shumilov writingSystem Cyrillic script
Old Permic script influencedBy Cyrillic script
Old Permic script replacedBy Cyrillic script
Galina writingSystem Cyrillic script