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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Chuvash people writingSystem Cyrillic script
Komi-Permyak language writingSystem Cyrillic script
Jagodina writingSystem Cyrillic script
Kolubara writingSystemOfName Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic
Mordvinic languages writingSystem Cyrillic script
Meadow Mari language writingSystem Cyrillic script
Hill Mari language hasWritingSystem Cyrillic script
Ter Sami language writingSystem Cyrillic script
Nemanja writingSystem Cyrillic script
Lazar script Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic alphabet
Kruševac writingSystem Cyrillic script
Borovichi writingSystemUsed Cyrillic script
Kolt Saami writingSystem Cyrillic script
Naukan Yupik language writingSystem Cyrillic script
Minin writingSystem Cyrillic script
Ulyanova writingSystem Cyrillic script
Miloslavskaya writingSystem Cyrillic script
Predrag hasScript Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic
Odzaci writingSystem Cyrillic script
subject surface form: Odžaci
Gavrilo hasScript Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic alphabet
Nakh languages writingSystemUsed Cyrillic script
Nakh peoples hasWritingSystem Cyrillic script
Eastern Sami hasWritingSystem Cyrillic script
Georgi writingSystem Cyrillic script
UZS writingSystem Cyrillic script
Chapaevsk writingSystem Cyrillic script
Principality of Moldavia usedScript Cyrillic script
Temerin hasWritingSystem Cyrillic script
Beočin writingSystem Cyrillic script
Montenegro and Serbia sharedAlphabet Cyrillic script
Tosno writingSystem Cyrillic script
Gardinovci usesWritingSystem Cyrillic script
Jovan writingSystem Cyrillic script
Ishim writingSystemUsed Cyrillic script
Cvijić writingSystem Cyrillic script
Vrbas writingSystem Cyrillic script
Milutin writingSystem Cyrillic script
Dargwa language hasWritingSystem Cyrillic script
Rutul language hasWritingSystem Cyrillic script
Rutul language scriptBase Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic alphabet
Agul language hasWritingSystem Cyrillic script
Lak language writingSystem Cyrillic script
Bezhta language hasWritingSystem Cyrillic script
Godoberi language writingSystem Cyrillic script
Akusha Dargwa writingSystem Cyrillic script
Udi language writingSystem Cyrillic script