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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магӏарул мацӏ (maʕarul macʼ) writingSystem Cyrillic script
subject surface form: магӏарул мацӏ
Kurakh dialect writingSystem Cyrillic script
Itelmen people writingSystem Cyrillic script
Dolgan people writingSystem Cyrillic script
Evenki people writingSystem Cyrillic script
Even people writingSystem Cyrillic script
Vyazniki writingSystem Cyrillic script
Lakinsk writingSystem Cyrillic script
Nivkh writingSystem Cyrillic script
Kumyks writingSystem Cyrillic script
Prokuplje writingSystem Cyrillic script
Asenovgrad writingSystem Cyrillic script
Vadym writingSystem Cyrillic script
Balkar writingSystem Cyrillic script
Ivaylovgrad writingSystem Cyrillic script
Ohrid Literary School writingSystem Cyrillic script
Kuznetsovo writingSystem Cyrillic script
Lezgi writingSystem Cyrillic script
Kryklii writingSystem Cyrillic script
Kumandian writingSystem Cyrillic script
Buynaksk dialect writingSystem Cyrillic script
Abaza writingSystem Cyrillic script
Ruslan writingSystem Cyrillic script
Rus writingSystem Cyrillic script
Lemko people writingSystem Cyrillic script
Lemko language writingSystem Cyrillic script
Khakas language writingSystem Cyrillic script
Tuvinian language writingSystem Cyrillic script
Shor language writingSystem Cyrillic script
Tofa language writingSystem Cyrillic script
Altai language writingSystem Cyrillic script
Yartsevo writingSystem Cyrillic script
Valjevo writingSystem Cyrillic script
Gornji Milanovac writingSystem Cyrillic script
Shughni language writingSystem Cyrillic script
Khufi language writingSystem Cyrillic script
Yazgulyam language writingSystem Cyrillic script
Kutakhov writingSystem Cyrillic script
Genrikh writingSystem Cyrillic script
Tuvans writingSystem Cyrillic script
Tajik culture writingSystem Cyrillic script
Digor Ossetian writingSystem Cyrillic script
Vršac writingSystem Cyrillic script
Ahmetov writingSystem Cyrillic script
Shumen writingSystem Cyrillic script
Lyubov writingSystem Cyrillic script
Southern Altai writingSystem Cyrillic script
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