The earliest known alphabet in the wider sense is the Wadi el-Hol script, believed to be an abjad, which through its successor Phoenician is the ancestor of modern alphabets, including Arabic, Greek, Latin ( via the Old Italic alphabet ), Cyrillic ( via the Greek alphabet ) and Hebrew ( via Aramaic ).

The largest alphabets in the narrow sense include Kabardian and Abkhaz ( for Cyrillic ), with 58 and 56 letters, respectively, and Slovak ( for the Latin script ), with 46.

* Be ( Cyrillic ), a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet

Other uses include the Early Cyrillic titlo ( ◌҃ ) and the Hebrew gershayim ( ״ ), which, respectively, mark abbreviations or acronyms, and Greek diacritical marks, which showed that letters of the alphabet were being used as numerals.

Compare these transcriptions of Chinese 道: Wade – Giles tao or tao < sup > 4 </ sup > ( marking 4th tone ), Legge romanization tâo, Latinxua Sin Wenz dau, Yale Romanization dàu, Mandarin Phonetic Symbols II dau, Hanyu Pinyin dào, Tongyong Pinyin daˋo, Gwoyeu Romatzyh or National Romanization daw, Zhuyin fuhao ㄉㄠ, and Cyrillic Palliday system дао.

Unlike Cyrillic numerals, which inherited their numeric value from the corresponding Greek letter ( see Greek numerals ), Glagolitic letters were assigned values based on their native alphabetic order.

The following table lists each letter in its modern order, showing an image of the letter ( round variant ), the corresponding modern Cyrillic letter, the approximate sound transcribed with the IPA, the name, and suggestions for its origin.

A corresponding term is sometimes used in Slavic languages, in Serbian is otadžbina or отаџбина in Serbian Cyrillic alphabet, Bosnian Otadžbina ( Отаџбина ), Macedonian татковина ( tatkovina ), Bulgarian татковина ( tatkovina ) as well as otechestvo, Czech otčina ( although the normal Czech term for " homeland " is vlast ), in Polish ojczyzna ( besides macierz " motherland "), Russian otechestvo ( отечество ) or otchizna ( отчизна ) ( although rodina " motherland " is more common ).

Letters that arose from this letter include the Roman I and J and the Cyrillic І ( І, і ), Yi ( Ї, ї ), Je ( Ј, ј ), and iotified letters ( e. g. Yu ( Ю, ю )).

* In Russian cursive, as well as in some others based on the Cyrillic script ( for example, Macedonian ), a lowercase Т looks like a lowercase m, and a macron is often used to distinguish it from Ш, which looks like a lowercase w ( see Т ).

* Psi ( Cyrillic ) ( Ѱ, ѱ ), a letter of the early Cyrillic alphabet, adopted from Greek

Since 1945, the official name of the city in Macedonian has been Skopje ( Скопје ), reflecting the Macedonian Cyrillic orthography for the local pronunciation.

* Uk ( Cyrillic ) (, ), a letter in the early Cyrillic alphabet

As evidenced by the contemporary chronicles, the ruling princes of Galich ( modern Halych ) and Kiev called themselves " People of Rus '" ( with the exact Cyrillic spelling of the adjective from of Rus varying among sources ), which contrasts sharply with the lack of ethnic self-appellation for the area until the mid-19th century.

Klow is told to be the Capital of Mineral Water, and they are famous for their Klowaswa ( Cyrillic: Кловасва ), their national mineral water, literally meaning " Klow Water " or " Water from Klow ".

The word vodka written in Cyrillic appeared first in 1533, in relation to a medicinal drink brought from Poland to Russia by the merchants of Kievan Rus '.

* June 29 or June 30 – The first document is fully written in Romanian: the letter of Neacşu, a trader from Câmpulung, to Johannes Benkner, the mayor of Braşov, warning that the Ottoman Empire is preparing its troops to cross into Wallachia and Transylvania ; the script used is Romanian Cyrillic.

In the 20th century, Mongolia switched first the Latin script, and then almost immediately replaced it with the Cyrillic script for compatibility with the Soviet Union, its political ally of the time.

The first Belarusian book printed with the first printing press in the Cyrillic alphabet was published in Prague, in 1517, by Francysk Skaryna, a leading representative of the renaissance Belarusian culture.

The Belarusian alphabet is a variant of the Cyrillic script, which was first used as an alphabet for the Old Church Slavonic language.

Twenty years later, the first Cyrillic printing house was founded at Kraków by Schweipolt Fiol for Eastern Orthodox Church hierarchs.

In the first half of the 10th century, the Cyrillic script was devised in the Preslav Literary School, Bulgaria, based on the Glagolitic, the Greek and Latin alphabets.

The first alphabet was a 37-character Cyrillic alphabet invented by Baron Peter von Uslar.

The runic script was first mentioned in the 13th century Chronicle of Simon of Kéza, where he stated that the Székelys may use the script of the Vlachs, possibly making a confusion between the runes and Cyrillic script ( as the Romanian Cyrillic alphabet was used to write the Romanian language till 1860 – 1862 and remained in occasional use until ca.

Mileva Marić ( Serbian Cyrillic: Милева Марић ) ( December 19, 1875 – August 4, 1948 ) was Albert Einstein's fellow student at the Zurich Polytechnic, and later became his first wife.

A more recent example is the controversial Book of Veles, which claims to be an authentic written record of old Slavic religion from the 9th or 10th century CE, written in Cyrillic, whereas it cannot be proven that the Slavs had any sort of writing system before Christianisation, let alone that they used the Cyrillic alphabet ( named, of course, after St Cyril, who coined the first known writing system for Slavs when he was sent together with his brother Methodius to baptise them in the 9th century ).

Letters from the Tajik Cyrillic alphabet are given first, followed by IPA transcription.

Since McDivitt and White were prohibited from naming their spacecraft, they decided to put the American flag on their suits, the first astronauts to do so, although Soviet crews wore the Cyrillic " СССР " on their spacesuit helmets.

In the fifties, Partizan was separated from the Army and for the first time, the team's name was written in Cyrillic and Latin in the yellow outer circle of the club's crest.

Skaryna was one of the first to publish in the Cyrillic script, but not the first, as the Oktoikh was published by Schweipolt Fiol in 1491.

* АБВ, the first three letters of the Cyrillic script, analogous to ABC

ISO / IEC 8859-5: 1999, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 5: Latin / Cyrillic alphabet, is part of the ISO / IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1988.

Milan Babić ( Serbian Cyrillic: Милан Бабић ; February 26, 1956 – March 5, 2006 ) was from 1991 to 1992 the first President of the Republic of Serbian Krajina, a self-proclaimed state largely populated by a Serbs of Croatia that wished to break away from Croatia.

However, the ' a ' termination does hold true for other Russian contexts, as the letter ' a ' is appended to all Russian female last names ( Ivanov's mother, wife, and daughter all have last name Ivanova ; yet any son born out of wedlock to an Ivanova defaults back to last name Ivanov ), and nearly all Russian feminine first names end in ' a ' ( or ' ya ', a distinct letter in the Cyrillic alphabet ).

) Cyrillic is basically a true alphabet, but has syllabic letters for ( я, е, ю ); Coptic has a letter for.

Letters that arose from Alpha include the Latin A and the Cyrillic letter А.

Until 1945, Bulgarian orthography did not reveal this alternation and used the original Old Slavic Cyrillic letter yat (), 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.

For example, the Cyrillic letter Р is usually written as R in the Latin script, although in many cases it is not as simple as a one-for-one equivalence.

Letters that arose from Eta include the Latin H and the Cyrillic letter И.

Eta was also borrowed with the sound value of into the Cyrillic script, where it gave rise to the Cyrillic letter И.

* Г г: Cyrillic letter Ge

* Ѓ ѓ: Cyrillic letter Gje

* Ғ ғ: Cyrillic letter Ghayn

For instance, the letter yu Ⱓ is thought to have perhaps originally had the sound / u /, but was displaced by the adoption of an ow ligature Ⱆ under the influence of later Cyrillic.

Letters in other alphabets that stemmed from lambda include the Latin L and the Cyrillic letter El ( Л, л ).

* О о: Cyrillic letter O

In phonetics, rhotic consonants, also called tremulants or " R-like " sounds, are liquid consonants that are traditionally represented orthographically by symbols derived from the Greek letter rho, including ⟨ R ⟩, ⟨ r ⟩ from the Latin script and ⟨ Р ⟩, ⟨ p ⟩ from the Cyrillic script.