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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Kryts language writingSystem Cyrillic script
Jek language writingSystem Cyrillic script
oss writingSystem Cyrillic script
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Ossetian literature usesScript Cyrillic script
Zubov writingSystem Cyrillic script
Dargic languages hasWritingSystem Cyrillic script
Khinalug language writingSystem Cyrillic script
Zlatitsa writingSystem Cyrillic script
this entity surface form: Cyrillic
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Alekseyevna writingSystem Cyrillic script
Saltykova writingSystem Cyrillic script
Kratovo writingSystem Cyrillic script
Kriva Palanka writingSystem Cyrillic script
Kyustendil writingSystem Cyrillic script
Chukchi language writingSystem Cyrillic script
Dimitrovgrad writingSystem Cyrillic script
Ulch writingSystem Cyrillic script
Ilya writingSystem Cyrillic script
Sviatoslav writingSystem Cyrillic script
Zhores writingSystem Cyrillic script
Sakha writingSystem Cyrillic script
Bogatić writingSystem Cyrillic script
Politkovskaya writingSystem Cyrillic script
Kuzakov writingSystem Cyrillic script
Gaidar writingSystem Cyrillic script
Evens writingSystem Cyrillic script
Koryak language writingSystem Cyrillic script
Yukaghir writingSystem Cyrillic script
Dolgan language writingSystem Cyrillic script
Tayshet writingSystem Cyrillic script
Zheleznodorozhny writingSystem Cyrillic script
Dargwa writingSystem Cyrillic script
Urakhi writingSystem Cyrillic script
Tsudakhar writingSystem Cyrillic script
Megeb writingSystem Cyrillic script
Chirag writingSystem Cyrillic script
Akusha dialect writingSystem Cyrillic script
Northern Tabasaran writingSystem Cyrillic script
Southern Tabasaran writingSystem Cyrillic script
Aghul writingSystem Cyrillic script
Rutul writingSystem Cyrillic script
Tabasaran people writingSystem Cyrillic script
Yagoda writingSystem Cyrillic script
Avar people writingSystem Cyrillic script
Boehkhʼul (standard Avar based on Khunzakh dialect) writingSystem Cyrillic script
subject surface form: Boehkhʼul
Avar language writingSystem Cyrillic script