A report on Cyrillic script

Example of the Cyrillic script. Excerpt from the manuscript "Bdinski Zbornik". Written in 1360.
Cyrillic Script Monument in Antarctica
View of the cave monastery near the village of Krepcha, Opaka Municipality in Bulgaria. Here is found the oldest Cyrillic inscription, dated 921.
A page from Азбука (Букварь) (ABC (Reader)), the first Russian language textbook, printed by Ivan Fyodorov in 1574. This page features the Cyrillic alphabet.
A page from the Church Slavonic Grammar of Meletius Smotrytsky (1619)
Letters Ge, De, I, I kratkoye, Me, Te, Tse, Be and Ve in upright (printed) and cursive (handwritten) variants. (Top is set in Georgia font, bottom in Odessa Script.)
75px
75px
Alternate variants of lowercase (cursive) Cyrillic letters: Б/б, Д/д, Г/г, И/и, П/п, Т/т, Ш/ш. 
Default Russian (Eastern) forms on the left.
Alternate Bulgarian (Western) upright forms in the middle. 
Alternate Serbian/Macedonian (Southern) italic forms on the right.
See also: 
Cyrillic cursive.svg Special Cyrillics BGDPT.svg

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.

- Cyrillic script
Example of the Cyrillic script. Excerpt from the manuscript "Bdinski Zbornik". Written in 1360.

126 related topics with Alpha

Overall

Russian writer Nikolay Karamzin created letter ё

Yo (Cyrillic)

2 links

Russian writer Nikolay Karamzin created letter ё

Yo, Jo, or Io (Ё ё; italics: Ё ё ; ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

Informal romanizations of Cyrillic

1 links

Informal or ad hoc romanizations of Cyrillic have been in use since the early days of electronic communications, starting from early e-mail and bulletin board systems.

Informal or ad hoc romanizations of Cyrillic have been in use since the early days of electronic communications, starting from early e-mail and bulletin board systems.

Their use faded with the advances in the Russian internet that made support of Cyrillic script standard, but resurfaced with the proliferation of instant messaging, SMS and mobile phone messaging in Russia.

Kyrgyz language

3 links

Turkic language of the Kipchak branch spoken in Central Asia.

Turkic language of the Kipchak branch spoken in Central Asia.

In 1940, Soviet authorities replaced the Latin script with the Cyrillic alphabet for all Turkic countries.

Ravna Monastery

1 links

Literary center of the Preslav Literary School during the 9th and 10th centuries in the north-eastern part of the Bulgarian Empire.

Literary center of the Preslav Literary School during the 9th and 10th centuries in the north-eastern part of the Bulgarian Empire.

In total, more than 330 inscriptions of 5 different graphic systems have been discovered in the monastery - the Runic letter, the Greek letter, the Latin letter, the Cyrillic letter, the Glagolitic letter.

Books in Dungan or about Dungan (in Russian or English). Most of them were published in Frunze, Kirghiz SSR
in the 1970s and 80s

Dungan language

1 links

Sinitic language spoken primarily in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan by the Dungan people, an ethnic group related to the Hui people of China.

Sinitic language spoken primarily in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan by the Dungan people, an ethnic group related to the Hui people of China.

Books in Dungan or about Dungan (in Russian or English). Most of them were published in Frunze, Kirghiz SSR
in the 1970s and 80s
Bilingual sign in Russian and Dungan at the home of Soviet war hero Mansuzy Vanakhun

Although it is derived from the Central Plains Mandarin of Gansu and Shaanxi, it is written in Cyrillic (or Xiao'erjing) and contains loanwords and archaisms not found in other modern varieties of Mandarin.

Stamp of the Soviet Union, Chuvash people, 1933

Chuvash language

0 links

Chuvash (, ; Чӑвашла, translit.

Chuvash (, ; Чӑвашла, translit.

Stamp of the Soviet Union, Chuvash people, 1933
A possible scheme for the diachronic development of Chuvash vowels (note that not all the sounds with an asterisk are necessarily separate phonemes).

The writing system for the Chuvash language is based on the Cyrillic script, employing all of the letters used in the Russian alphabet and adding four letters of its own: Ӑ, Ӗ, Ҫ and Ӳ.

Erzya flag

Erzya language

1 links

Spoken by approximately 300,000 people in the northern, eastern and north-western parts of the Republic of Mordovia and adjacent regions of Nizhny Novgorod, Chuvashia, Penza, Samara, Saratov, Orenburg, Ulyanovsk, Tatarstan and Bashkortostan in Russia.

Spoken by approximately 300,000 people in the northern, eastern and north-western parts of the Republic of Mordovia and adjacent regions of Nizhny Novgorod, Chuvashia, Penza, Samara, Saratov, Orenburg, Ulyanovsk, Tatarstan and Bashkortostan in Russia.

Erzya flag
Mordovins in Russia

Erzya is currently written using Cyrillic with no modifications to the variant used by the Russian language.

Yi (Cyrillic)

2 links

Yi (Ї ї; italics: Ї ї ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

Gje

2 links

Gje (or ) (Ѓ ѓ; italics: Ѓ ѓ ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

Code page 866

2 links

Code page 866 (CCSID 866) (CP 866, "DOS Cyrillic Russian") is a code page used under DOS and OS/2 in Russia to write Cyrillic script.