cyrillic alphabet

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English - Turkish
Kiril alfabesi
kiril abecesi
English - English
An alphabet developed in the 9th centuryPaul Cubberley (1996) "The Slavic Alphabets". In Daniels and Bright, eds. The World's Writing Systems. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-507993-0. in Bulgaria, devised for writing the Old Church Slavonic liturgical language, and its adaptations used for several Slavic and other languages of Eastern Europe and Asia
Alphabet used for Russian, Serbian (see Serbo-Croatian language), Bulgarian and Macedonian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, and many non-Slavic languages of the former Soviet Union, as well as Khalka Mongolian (see Mongolian language). The history of the Cyrillic alphabet is complex and much disputed. It is clearly derived from 9th-century Greek uncial capital letters, with the non-Greek letters probably taken from the Glagolitic alphabet, a highly original alphabet in which (along with Cyrillic) Old Church Slavonic was written. A commonly held hypothesis is that followers of Sts. Cyril and Methodius developed Cyrillic in the southern Balkans around the end of the 9th century. The 44 original Cyrillic letters were reduced in number in most later alphabets used for vernacular languages, and some wholly original letters introduced, particularly for non-Slavic languages
an alphabet drived from the Greek alphabet and used for writing Slavic languages
cyrillic alphabet

    Hyphenation

    Cy·ril·lic al·pha·bet

    Turkish pronunciation

    sırîlîk älfıbet

    Pronunciation

    /sərˈələk ˈalfəˌbet/ /sɜrˈɪlɪk ˈælfəˌbɛt/

    Etymology

    () Cyrillic + alphabet. Named after Saint Cyril (Ancient Greek Κύριλλος (Kurillos)), who devised a predecessor to Cyrillic script, the Glagolitic alphabet.
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