European alphabets, especially Latin and Cyrillic, have been adapted for many languages of Asia.

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 ).

Examples of present-day abjads are the Arabic and Hebrew scripts ; true alphabets include Latin, Cyrillic, and Korean hangul ; and abugidas are used to write Tigrinya, Amharic, Hindi, and Thai.

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.

The Greek alphabet evolved into the modern western alphabets, such as Latin and Cyrillic, while Aramaic became the ancestor of many modern abjads and abugidas of Asia.

Several Cyrillic alphabets with 28 to 44 letters were used in the beginning and the middle of the 19th century during the efforts on the codification of Modern Bulgarian until an alphabet with 32 letters, proposed by Marin Drinov, gained prominence in the 1870s.

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:* The acute accent " ́" above any vowel in Cyrillic alphabets is used in dictionaries, books for children and foreign learners to indicate the word stress, it also can be used for disambiguation of similarly spelled words with different lexical stresses.

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Others provide non-Latin alphabets: Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Arabic and Thai.

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

The Glagolitic and Cyrillic alphabets, based primarily on the Greek uncial writing of the 9th century, are the oldest known Slavic alphabets and were created by the two brothers and their students, in order to translate the Bible and other texts into the Slavic languages.

Serbian is the only European language with active digraphia, using both Cyrillic and Latin alphabets.

Serbian is the only European language with active digraphia, using both Cyrillic and Latin alphabets.

Table of Uzbek Cyrillic and Latin alphabets, and represented sounds

Serbo-Croatian is the only European language with active digraphia, using both Cyrillic and Latin alphabets.

In languages which use the Latin, Cyrillic, and Arabic alphabets, as well as other languages of Europe and the Mideast, the word divider is a blank space, or whitespace, a convention which is spreading, along with other aspects of European punctuation, to Asia and Africa.

Versions exist for the following alphabets / scripts: Latin, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Greek, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Urdu, Khmer and Vietnamese.

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 acute accent ( ´ ) is a diacritic used in many modern written languages with alphabets based on the Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek scripts.

In the Serbo-Croatian language, which deployed both the Latinic and the Cyrillic alphabets, the title Hej, Slaveni was presented:

In linguistics, scientific transliteration is used for both Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabets.

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

Letters that come from delta include Latin D and Cyrillic Д.

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.

Letters that arose from Epsilon include the Roman E and Cyrillic Е.

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

Letters that arose from Gamma include the Roman C and G and the Cyrillic letters Г and Ґ.

The 41 letters we know today include letters for non-Greek sounds which may have been added by Saint Cyril, as well as ligatures added in the 12th century under the influence of Cyrillic, as Glagolitic lost its dominance.

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 )).

Released fonts include Optima Pro Cyrillic Roman, Oblique, Bold, Bold Oblique.

However, both the Greek letter " β " ( v ) and the Cyrillic " в " ( v ) have been historically Romanized as " b " ( other examples include " Βυζάντιον ", Vizantion → Byzantium ; the Greek name " Βασίλειος ", Vassilios and the Russian " Василий ", Vassily → Basil, the Byzantine title " σεβαστοκράτωρ "/" севастократор " sevastokrator → sebastokrator, etc .).

Important non-English terms for air defence include German flak ( from the German Fliegerabwehrkanone, aircraft defence cannon ; also cited as Flugzeugabwehrkanone or Flugabwehrkanone ) and the Russian term Protivovozdushnaya oborona ( Cyrillic: Противовоздушная оборона ), a literal translation of " anti-air defence ", abbreviated as PVO.

Letters that arose from tau include Roman T and Cyrillic Te ( Т, т ).

Letters that arose from pi include Cyrillic Pe ( П, п ), Coptic pi (), and Gothic pairthra ().

Letters that arose from omicron include Roman O and Cyrillic O.

Letters that arose from mu include the Roman M and the Cyrillic М.

Letters that arose from zeta include the Roman Z and Cyrillic З.

Letters that arose from Beta include the Roman letter ⟨ B ⟩ and the Cyrillic letters ⟨ Б ⟩ and ⟨ В ⟩.

Major recent developments include the passing to a Latin script from Cyrillic in 1989 and several changes in the statutory name of the language used in Moldova.

Among the listed alphabets, Bassa Vah is compared to include Armenian, Coptic ( used by Egyptian Coptics and Coptic Church ), Avestan used in Ancient Persia to write sacred hymns of Zoroastrianism, Georgian language in Republic of Georgia, Mongolian, Meroitic alphabet of ancient Sudan and parts of Nile Valley, and many other ancient scripts, Greek-based and Cyrillic alphabets.

Released fonts include Univers 55 Roman Oblique ; Univers Pro Cyrillic 45 ( roman, oblique ), 55 ( roman, oblique ), 65 ( roman, oblique ), 75 ( roman, oblique ), 85 ( roman, oblique ), 47 ( roman, oblique ), 57 ( roman, oblique ), 67 ( roman, oblique ), 39 ( roman ), 49 ( roman ), 59 ( roman ).

Letters that arose from kappa include the Roman K and Cyrillic К.