The Glagolitic alphabet is believed to have been created by Saints Cyril and Methodius, while the Cyrillic alphabet was invented by the Bulgarian scholar Clement of Ohrid, who was their disciple.

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 ).

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

One, the ABCDE order later used in Phoenician, has continued with minor changes in Hebrew, Greek, Armenian, Gothic, Cyrillic, and Latin ; the other, HMĦLQ, was used in southern Arabia and is preserved today in Ethiopic.

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.

:* 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.

The Cyrillic script analogue is marked as ⟨ г ⟩ ( e. g. in Russian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian, etc.

The Cyrillic alphabet is derived from the Greek alphabet, with ( at least 10 ) letters peculiar to Slavic languages being derived from the Glagolitic.

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.

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 ).

In conjunction with another disciple of Saints Cyril and Methodius, Saint Naum, he created a flourishing Bulgarian cultural center around Ohrid, where over 3, 000 pupils were taught in the Glagolitic and Cyrillic script in what is now called Ohrid Literary School.

* 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 ).

Its descendant script, the Cyrillic, is still used by many languages today.

In the Cyrillic alphabet used for the Belarusian language, ‹ Ў › is pronounced like English / w /.

* 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 Moksha language there is even a voiceless palatal approximant ( written in Cyrillic as < йх > jh ) along with and ( written as < лх > lh and < рх > rh ).

At the end of the 9th century, one of these students of Methodius who had settled in Preslav ( Bulgaria ) created the Cyrillic script, which almost entirely replaced the Glagolitic during the Middle Ages.

The Cyrillic script was developed shortly afterwards in the Preslav Literary School and replaced the Glagolitic one.

The Treaty of Passarowitz or Treaty of Požarevac was the peace treaty signed in Požarevac ( Serbian Cyrillic:,, ), a town in Ottoman Empire ( today Serbia ), on 21 July 1718 between the Ottoman Empire on one side and the Habsburg Monarchy of Austria and the Republic of Venice on the other.

Today, Kazakh is written in Cyrillic in Kazakhstan and Mongolia, while the more than one million Kazakh-speakers in China use an Arabic-derived alphabet similar to that used to write Uyghur.

The scriptorium may have played a key role in the development of Cyrillic script by Bulgarian scholars under the guidance of one of Saints Cyril and Methodius ' disciples.

Moldovan, written in the Cyrillic script, is one of the three official languages in the PMR ; Romanian is not.

Transcription should not be confused with translation, which means representing the meaning of a source language text in a target language ( e. g. translating the meaning of an English text into Spanish ), or with transliteration which means representing a text from one script in another ( e. g. transliterating a Cyrillic text into the Latin script ).

Note that traditional Cyrillic breve differs in shape, being thicker on the edges of the curve and thinner in the middle, from the Latin one.

Moldovan ( also Moldavian ; or лимба молдовеняскэ in Moldovan Cyrillic ) is one of the names of the Romanian language as spoken in the Republic of Moldova, where it is an official language.

Written in Cyrillic, Moldovan is also the name of one of three official languages of the breakaway Moldovan territory of Transnistria.

The Soviet Air Force, officially known in Russian as Военно-воздушные силы or ( in the Latin alphabet ) Voenno-Vozdushnye Sily ( literally, " Military Air Forces ") and often abbreviated VVS ( ВВС in Cyrillic ) was the official designation of one of the air forces of the Soviet Union.

Various symbols have been suggested as possibilities, including " РР " ( Cyrillic for " RR "), an " R " with two horizontal strokes across the top ( similar to the Philippine peso sign ), ₱, a " Р " with one horizontal strike.

This letter was used in the ISO 9: 1995 system of Cyrillic transliteration as the letter Ю and also in Wade-Giles ( one of the romanization systems in Chinese ) for apical dental unrounded vowel as in tzû, tz ' û, ssû, corresponds to present zi, ci, si in Pinyin respectively.

Zemun ( Serbian Cyrillic: Земун, ) is a historical town and one of the 17 municipalities which constitute the City of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia.

Each of the three available choices, the Latin, Cyrillic, and Arabic scripts, implied different political and religious orientations opposed by one or another element of the population.

Jovan Jovanović Zmaj ( Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Јовановић Змај, pronounced ; November 24, 1833 – June 3, 1904 ) was one of the best-known Serbian poets.

Each of the three available choices, the Latin, Cyrillic, and Arabic scripts, implied different political and religious orientations opposed by one or another element of the population.

The divergence of Tajik was accelerated by the shift from the Perso-Arabic alphabet to a Cyrillic one under the Soviets.

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.

Therefore, a constructed script is always informed by at least one older writing system, making it difficult in some cases to decide whether a new script is simply an adoption or a new creation ( for example the Cyrillic and the Gothic alphabets, which are nearly identical to the Greek alphabet but were nevertheless designed by individual authors ).

After Kryptos, however, he went on to make several other sculptures with codes and other types of writing, including one called Antipodes which is at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D. C., an " Untitled Kryptos Piece " which was sold to a private collector, and a Cyrillic Projector with encrypted Russian Cyrillic text, which included an extract from a classified KGB document.

As a result of these reflexes, yat no longer represented an independent phoneme, but rather an already existing one, represented by another Cyrillic letter.

The Cyrillic letter Es looks exactly like the Latin letter C, being one of six letters in the Cyrillic alphabet that share appearances with Latin alphabet letters but are pronounced in a different way.

Cyrillic eventually spread throughout most of the Slavic world to become the standard alphabet in the Orthodox Slavic countries.

The adoption of the Cyrillic script a short time later, almost simultaneously with most Soviet republics, suggests political reasons.

The most recent Mongolian alphabet is a based on the Cyrillic script, more specifically the Russian alphabet plus the letters, Өө / ö / and Үү / ü /.

The most commonly practiced style, Khöömii ( written in Cyrillic as Хөөмий ), can be divided up into the following categories ..

Different orthographies have been developed ( in most cases using variants of the Cyrillic script ), and a number of different grammatical standards exist, based on regional dialects.

However, scripts other than Latin were used much earlier, most notably the indigenous Bosnian Cyrillic called Bosančica ( literally " Bosnian script ") and dates back to the late 10th and early 11th centuries.

Bulgaria also gave the world the Cyrillic script, the second most widely used alphabet in the world, which originated in these two schools in the tenth century AD.

Many political parties in opposition to the authoritarian rule of President Niyazov continued to use the Cyrillic alphabet on websites and publications, most likely to distance themselves from the alphabet that Niyazov created.

( Cyrillic is the official script of the administration in Serbia and Republika Srpska but Latin script is most widely used in everyday life ).

Czajkowski and its feminine variant Czajkowska, Czajkowskaja or Czajkowskaya is a Slavic surname which, in addition to this, its Polish form, is most frequently seen as Tchaikovsky, its French transliteration from Cyrillic.

The common Slavic voiced velar plosive is represented in most Cyrillic orthographies by the letter ‹ Г ›, called ге ghe in most languages.

In 1939 the Bolsheviks imposed the Cyrillic script on most of the non-Russian languages, including the languages of Central Asia that in the late 1920s had been given Latin alphabets to replace Arabic ones.

Zhe is used in the alphabets of all Slavic languages using a Cyrillic alphabet, and of most non-Slavic languages which use a Cyrillic alphabet.

This is due to characters being placed in a special order ( 128 codepoints apart from the Latin letter they look most similar to ), which, however, does not correspond to the alphabetic order in any language that is written in Cyrillic and necessitates the use of lookup tables to perform sorting.

In most languages that use the Cyrillic alphabet – such as Ukrainian, Belarusian, Russian, Serbian, Macedonian and Bulgarian – the Cyrillic letter A represents the open front unrounded vowel.

Although use of Ä ä ( also used in Tatar, Turkmen, and Gagauz ) seems to be a simpler alternative as the schwa is absent in most character sets, particularly Turkish encoding, it was reintroduced ; the schwa had existed continuously from 1929 to 1991 to represent Azeri's most-common vowel, in both post-Arabic alphabets ( Latin and Cyrillic ) of Azerbaijan.

The Cyrillic letter Ka looks very similar, and corresponds to the Latin letter K but, as with most Cyrillic letters, the lowercase form is simply a smaller version of the uppercase.

The capital Cyrillic letter En looks very similar to the capital Latin letter H but, as with most Cyrillic letters, the lowercase form is simply a smaller version of the uppercase.

The capital Cyrillic letter Te ( Т т ) looks the same as the capital Latin letter T ( T t ) but, as with most Cyrillic letters, the lowercase form is simply a smaller version of the uppercase.