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Listed countries use Cyrillic as an official alphabet. The total share of actual and potential users of Cyrillic was approximately 3.5%-3.3% of the Earth's total human population in 2020. This total includes both those who know Cyrillic and also those who to some extent speak Russian in the Baltic countries, Western Europe , and North America ...
It is the designated 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, and used by many other minority languages.
- Origins of Cyrillic Alphabets
- Historical Evolution of The Cyrillic Alphabet
- Basics of Cyrillic Alphabets
A Byzantine monk named Saint Cyril created the Cyrillic alphabet in around 683 AD. In order to Christianize the tribes of the Eastern Europe, as ordered by their Emperor Michael III, he, along with his brother Methodius, embarked upon the herculean task of translating the Holy Bible into Slavic languages. Slavic was the native language of the Slavs...
Since its inception, the Cyrillic alphabet has went through multiple changes. Some of the most major ones were the changes made by the famous printer and publisher Ivan Fyodorov. He removed some of the letters, like Е and С, along with several forms of the letter О. Soon, other new letters, such as Э and Й, were also introduced into the alphabet. I...
There are 33 letters in the Russian Cyrillic alphabet, of which 10 are vowel letters, 21 are consonant letters, and two are signs. Many of the letters look very similar to those of Latin alphabets, like A, E, K, M, O, and T. However, some may have a different sound. Like the word, ‘нос’ seems like ‘hoc’, but it means nos, which implies nose. It was...
- Khushboo Sheth
Countries with widespread use of the Cyrillic script: Sole official script. Co-official with another script (either because the official language is biscriptal, or the state is bilingual) Being replaced with Latin, but is still in official use. Legacy script for the official language, or large minority use.
Variants of Cyrillic are used by the writing systems of many languages, especially languages used in the countries with the significant presence of Slavic peoples. The tables below list the Cyrillic letters in use in various modern languages and show the primary sounds they represent in them (see the articles on the specific ...
LetterNameNotesA with graveBulgarian, Macedonian (not individual ...А̂ а̂Bulgarian, Serbian (not individual ...A with breveChuvashHill Mari, Kildin Sami, Khanty, Serbian ...Cyrillic alphabet, writing system developed in the 9th–10th century for Slavic-speaking peoples of the Eastern Orthodox faith. It is currently used exclusively or as one of several alphabets for more than 50 languages, notably Belarusian, Bulgarian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, and Tajik.
It is the designated 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. Its name derives from Saint Cyril, who along with his brother, Saint Methodius, are said to be the inspiration for the script.
