South Slavic Cyrillic

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South Slavic Cyrillic is a group of historical and modern Cyrillic writing traditions used by South Slavic peoples, encompassing regional variants such as Bosnian, Serbian, Bulgarian, and Macedonian Cyrillic.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Cyrillic script variant
South Slavic writing tradition
writing system tradition
associatedWithLanguage Bosnian language NERFINISHED
Bulgarian language
Church Slavonic language
Macedonian language
Serbian language
characterSetType case-sensitive alphabet
derivedFrom Old Church Slavonic Cyrillic tradition NERFINISHED
distinguishedBy language-specific letter inventories
regional orthographic conventions
encodableIn Unicode NERFINISHED
hasModernStandardForms yes
hasOrthographicNorms yes
historicalRegion Balkans NERFINISHED
Southeastern Europe NERFINISHED
includes Bosnian Cyrillic NERFINISHED
Bulgarian Cyrillic NERFINISHED
Macedonian Cyrillic
Serbian Cyrillic NERFINISHED
influencedBy Old Bulgarian literary tradition
Orthodox Slavic scribal practice
relatedTo East Slavic Cyrillic NERFINISHED
West Slavic Latin scripts NERFINISHED
scriptDirection left-to-right
scriptFamily Cyrillic NERFINISHED
sharesCharacterRepertoireWith other Cyrillic alphabets
standardizedIn Bosnia and Herzegovina NERFINISHED
Bulgaria NERFINISHED
North Macedonia NERFINISHED
Serbia NERFINISHED
subclassOf Cyrillic script NERFINISHED
timePeriod Early modern period
Middle Ages
Modern era
usedBy South Slavs NERFINISHED
usedFor South Slavic languages NERFINISHED
usedInReligion Eastern Orthodox Christianity NERFINISHED
Slavic liturgical traditions
usesUppercaseLowercase true
writingMedium inscriptions
manuscripts
official documents
printed books
writingSystemType alphabet

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Bosnian Cyrillic scriptClass South Slavic Cyrillic