A report on Cyrillic script and Alphabet
The first fully phonemic script, the Proto-Canaanite script, later known as the Phoenician alphabet, is considered to be the first alphabet and is the ancestor of most modern alphabets, including Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, and possibly Brahmic.
- AlphabetThe new script became the basis of alphabets used in various languages in Orthodox Church-dominated Eastern Europe, both Slavic and non-Slavic (such as Romanian).
- Cyrillic script6 related topics with Alpha
Latin script
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The Latin script, also known as Roman script, is an alphabetic writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the Cumaean Greek version of the Greek alphabet used by the Etruscans.
The speakers of East Slavic languages generally adopted Cyrillic along with Orthodox Christianity.
Greek alphabet
1 linksThe Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BCE.
The Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BCE.
It is derived from the earlier Phoenician alphabet, and was the earliest known alphabetic script to have distinct letters for vowels as well as consonants.
The Greek alphabet is the ancestor of the Latin and Cyrillic scripts.
Glagolitic script
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The Glagolitic script (,, glagolitsa) is the oldest known Slavic alphabet.
Both the Glagolitic and Cyrillic alphabets were used until 13th-14th century in Bulgaria.
Writing system
1 linksMethod of visually representing verbal communication, based on a script and a set of rules regulating its use.
Method of visually representing verbal communication, based on a script and a set of rules regulating its use.
Writing systems can be placed into broad categories such as alphabets, syllabaries, or logographies, although any particular system may have attributes of more than one category.
complete (alphabet), e.g. Greco-Latin, Cyrillic
Cyril and Methodius
1 linksCyril (born Constantine, 826–869) and Methodius (815–885) were two brothers and Byzantine Christian theologians and missionaries.
Cyril (born Constantine, 826–869) and Methodius (815–885) were two brothers and Byzantine Christian theologians and missionaries.
There they and scholar Saint Clement of Ohrid devised the Cyrillic script on the basis of the Glagolitic.
The Glagolitic and Cyrillic alphabets are the oldest known Slavic alphabets, and were created by the two brothers and their students, to translate the Gospels and liturgical books into the Slavic languages.
Ukrainian alphabet
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The Ukrainian alphabet is the set of letters used to write Ukrainian, which is the official language of Ukraine.
It is one of several national variations of the Cyrillic script.