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.

See Early Cyrillic alphabet for a detailed description of the script and information about the sounds it originally expressed.

* Cyrillic manuscript developed from Greek uncial in the late ninth century ( mostly replacing the Glagolitic alphabet ), and was originally used to write the Old Church Slavonic liturgical language.

The etymology of the name Moskva ( originally Moskha, later when Slavic tribes conquered the city transformеd to Moscow because of the specificity of the Slavic languages ) is probably Uralic, perhaps Volga-Finnic ( Mordvinic or Merya ), more likely is the name of the city be given in honor of the Volga Bulgarian ruler with the same name ( see Cäğfär Taríxı, The Cäğfär Taríxı ( Tatar Cyrillic: Җәгъфәр тарихы, pronounced tʌrɯɪˈxɯ ; Russian: Джагфар Тарихы, in English generally Djagfar Tarikhy ).

In Orthodox Christianity and certain other Eastern Christian communities Lavra or Laura (; Cyrillic: Ла ́ вра ) originally meant a cluster of cells or caves for hermits, with a church and sometimes a refectory at the center.

Its companion is the front yer, now known as the soft sign in Russian and as er malək ( ер малък, " small er ") in Bulgarian ( Ь, ь ), which was originally also a reduced vowel, more frontal than the ъ, and which is today used to mark the palatalization of consonants in all of the Slavic languages written in the Cyrillic script, except for Serbian and Macedonian, where it is not used although its traces can be seen in the letters њ and љ.

The term was popularized by its use in the first Soviet commercially-available UUCP and TCP / IP network, RELCOM ( a typical networking software package included Cyrillic KOI-8 to Volapuk transcoding utilities called tovol and fromvol, originally implemented by Vadim Antonov ), making it the likely origin of the usage of Volapuk as applied to Cyrillic encoding.

Like Latin and Cyrillic, Greek originally had only a single form of each letter ; it developed the distinction between upper case and lower case in parallel with Latin during the modern era.

Like many Cyrillic letters, originally the letter yery was formed from a ligature: — formed from Yer ⟨ ъ ⟩ and ⟨ і ⟩ ( formerly written either dotless or with two dots ) or Izhe (⟨ и ⟩, whose former letterform resembled ⟨ н ⟩).

Georgi Nikolov Delchev ( 1872 – 1903 ) ( Bulgarian / Macedonian: Георги Николов Делчев, known as Gotse Delchev, also spelled Goce Delčev, Cyrillic: Гоце Делчев, originally spelled Гоце Дѣлчевъ ) was an important revolutionary figure in Ottoman-ruled Macedonia and Thrace at the turn of the 20th century.

Yugoslavs ( Serbo-Croatian: Jugoslaveni, Jugosloveni ; Serbian Cyrillic: Југословени ; Slovene: Jugoslovani ; Macedonian: Југословени, Bulgarian: Югославяни ) is a designation that was originally designed to refer to a united South Slav people.

Cyrillic letter-forms are originally derived from tenth-century Greek manuscript, but the modern forms more closely resemble Latin since Peter the Great's civil script reform of 1708.

It was originally a digraph of the Cyrillic letters O ( О о ) and U ( У у ) or less frequently O and Izhitsa ().

It was replaced relatively early by the Cyrillic letter Che ( Ч ч ), which is similar in appearance and originally had no numeric value.

Many Lieberman families originally spelled the name in Hebrew or Cyrillic characters, so variations in the spelling occurred during transliteration to the Latin alphabet.

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

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.

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.

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.

:* The Cyrillic Ukrainian alphabet has the letters й and ї. Ukrainian Latynka has many more.

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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.

Glagolitic letters were also used as numbers, similarly to Cyrillic numerals.

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

The values of many of the letters are thought to have been displaced under Cyrillic influence, or to have become confused through the early spread to different dialects, so that the original values are not always clear.

Other letters were late creations after a Cyrillic model.

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 )).

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 /.

: Cyrillic letters in this article are romanized using scientific transliteration.

Ukrainian is written in a version of Cyrillic, consisting of 33 letters, representing 38 phonemes ; an apostrophe is also used.

:* in Russian, " Любя, съешь щипцы, — вздохнёт мэр, — кайф жгуч " ( all 33 Russian Cyrillic alphabet letters ).

Curiously, the Latin alphabet is used in medieval documents, and the Cyrillic letters used are a straight transcription from the Latin letters ( e. g., " sh " is written " сз " rather than " ш ").

In the Serbian cross, the four betas have been turned into four Cyrillic letters С with little stylistic modification, for a new message: Само Слога Србина Спашава " Only Unity Saves the Serbs ".

It had 37 letters and was based on the Cyrillic script.

Alexander I or Aleksandar Obrenović ( Cyrillic: Александар Обреновић ; 14 August 1876 – 11 June 1903 ) was king of Serbia from 1889 to 1903 when he and his wife, Queen Draga, were assassinated by a group of Army officers, led by Colonel Dragutin Dimitrijević

Cyrillic numerals were a numbering system derived from the Cyrillic alphabet, used by South and East Slavic peoples.

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.

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.

The Venera ( Cyrillic: Венера ) series probes were developed by the Soviet Union between 1961 and 1984 to gather data from Venus, Venera being the Russian name for Venus.

The Greek alphabet ( and by extension its descendants such as the Latin, the Cyrillic and the Coptic ), was a direct successor of Phoenician, though certain letter values were changed to represent vowels.

In the USSR, BNC connectors were copied as SR-50 ( СР-50 in Cyrillic ) and SR-75 ( СР-75 in Cyrillic ) connectors.

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.

It added Greek ( from Frutiger Next Greek ) and Cyrillic character sets, but advertised OpenType features were reduced to superscript / subscript.

From then and until World War I, both Old Cyrillic and Latin were used, at which point the Old Cyrillic alphabet fell out of use.

Additional Cyrillic styles were developed in 2007 by Isabella Chaeva.

During the period of Russian interest in Korea at the beginning of the 20th century, attempts were also made at representing Korean in Cyrillic.

Smooth breathings were also used in the early Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabets when writing the Old Church Slavonic language.

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.

Most ESER Computers were named ЕС ( which is Cyrillic for " ES ") followed by a four digit number, e. g., EC 1055, often also called ESER ( e. g., ESER 1055 ).

In September 2003, as " Days of Belarusian Literacy " were celebrated for the 10th time in Polotsk, city authorities dedicated a monument to honor the unique Cyrillic Belarusian letter Ў, which is not used in any other Slavic language.