A report on Cyrillic script
Writing system used for various languages across Eurasia and is used as the national script in various Slavic, Turkic, Mongolic, Uralic, Caucasian and Iranic-speaking countries in Southeastern Europe, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, North Asia, and East Asia.
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Transliteration
8 linksType of conversion of a text from one script to another that involves swapping letters in predictable ways, such as Greek α → a, Cyrillic д → d, Greek χ → the digraph ch, Armenian ն → n or Latin æ → ae.
Type of conversion of a text from one script to another that involves swapping letters in predictable ways, such as Greek α → a, Cyrillic д → d, Greek χ → the digraph ch, Armenian ն → n or Latin æ → ae.
For instance, for the Modern Greek term "Ελληνική Δημοκρατία", which is usually translated as "Hellenic Republic", the usual transliteration to Latin script is Ellēnikḗ Dēmokratía, and the name for Russia in Cyrillic script, "Россия", is usually transliterated as Rossiya.
Macedonian language
6 linksMacedonian (македонски јазик, translit.
Macedonian (македонски јазик, translit.
It is written using an adapted 31-letter version of the Cyrillic script with six original letters.
Rusyn language
5 linksRusyn, also known by the older term, , is an East Slavic language spoken by Rusyns in several parts of Central and Eastern Europe, and written in the Cyrillic script.
Byzantine Empire
7 linksThe continuation of the Roman Empire in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinople. It survived the fragmentation and fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD and continued to exist for an additional thousand years until the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire in 1453. During most of its existence, the empire remained the most powerful economic, cultural, and military force in Europe. The terms "Byzantine Empire" and "Eastern Roman Empire" were coined after the end of the realm; its citizens continued to refer to their empire simply as the Roman Empire, and to themselves as Romans{{NoteTag|{{Lang-gkm|Βασιλεία Ῥωμαίων|Basileía Rhōmaíōn}} ; {{Lang-gkm|Ῥωμανία|Rhōmaía}} (Romania); {{Lang-gkm|Ῥωμαῖοι|Rhōmaîoi}} (Romans)}}—a term which Greeks continued to use for themselves into Ottoman times.
The continuation of the Roman Empire in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinople. It survived the fragmentation and fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD and continued to exist for an additional thousand years until the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire in 1453. During most of its existence, the empire remained the most powerful economic, cultural, and military force in Europe. The terms "Byzantine Empire" and "Eastern Roman Empire" were coined after the end of the realm; its citizens continued to refer to their empire simply as the Roman Empire, and to themselves as Romans{{NoteTag|{{Lang-gkm|Βασιλεία Ῥωμαίων|Basileía Rhōmaíōn}} ; {{Lang-gkm|Ῥωμανία|Rhōmaía}} (Romania); {{Lang-gkm|Ῥωμαῖοι|Rhōmaîoi}} (Romans)}}—a term which Greeks continued to use for themselves into Ottoman times.
Cyril and Methodius, two Byzantine Greek brothers from Thessaloniki, contributed significantly to the Christianisation of the Slavs and in the process devised the Glagolitic alphabet, ancestor to the Cyrillic script.
Serbian Cyrillic alphabet
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The Serbian Cyrillic alphabet (Српска ћирилица / Srpska ćirilica, ) is a variation of the Cyrillic script used to write the Serbian language, updated in 1818 by Serbian linguist Vuk Karadžić.
Cursive
4 linksAny style of penmanship in which characters are written joined in a flowing manner, generally for the purpose of making writing faster, in contrast to block letters.
Any style of penmanship in which characters are written joined in a flowing manner, generally for the purpose of making writing faster, in contrast to block letters.
In the Arabic, Syriac, Latin, and Cyrillic alphabets, many or all letters in a word are connected (while other must not), sometimes making a word one single complex stroke.
Ligature (writing)
6 linksIn writing and typography, a ligature occurs where two or more graphemes or letters are joined to form a single glyph.
In writing and typography, a ligature occurs where two or more graphemes or letters are joined to form a single glyph.
A number of ligatures have been employed in the Greek alphabet, in particular a combination of omicron (Ο) and upsilon (Υ), which later gave rise to a letter of the Cyrillic script—see Ou (letter). Among the ancient Greek acrophonic numerals, ligatures were common (in fact, the ligature of a short-legged capital pi was a key feature of the acrophonic numeral system).
Church Slavonic
6 linksConservative Slavic liturgical language used by the Eastern Orthodox Church in Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Serbia, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Slovenia and Croatia.
Conservative Slavic liturgical language used by the Eastern Orthodox Church in Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Serbia, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Slovenia and Croatia.
A major event was the development of the Cyrillic script in Bulgaria at the Preslav Literary School in the 9th century.
Bulgarian language
7 linksSouth Slavic language spoken in Southeastern Europe, primarily in Bulgaria.
South Slavic language spoken in Southeastern Europe, primarily in Bulgaria.
Until 1945, Bulgarian orthography did not reveal this alternation and used the original Old Slavic Cyrillic letter yat (Ѣ), which was commonly called двойно е (dvoyno e) at the time, to express the historical yat vowel or at least root vowels displaying the ya – e alternation.
Cyrillic alphabets
2 links[[File:Cyrillic alphabet world distribution.svg|thumb|upright=2|Countries with widespread use of the Cyrillic script:
[[File:Cyrillic alphabet world distribution.svg|thumb|upright=2|Countries with widespread use of the Cyrillic script:
Numerous Cyrillic alphabets are based on the Cyrillic script.