13 Facts About Cyrillic alphabets

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The early Cyrillic alphabets alphabet was developed in the 9th century AD and replaced the earlier Glagolitic script developed by the Byzantine theologians Cyril and Methodius.

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Cyrillic alphabets is one of the most-used writing systems in the world.

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3.

However, in some Cyrillic alphabets invented in the 19th century, such as Mari, Udmurt and Chuvash, umlauts and breves were used.

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Non-Slavic Cyrillic alphabets are generally modelled after Russian, but often bear striking differences, particularly when adapted for Caucasian languages.

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The first few of these Cyrillic alphabets were developed by Orthodox missionaries for the Finnic and Turkic peoples of Idel-Ural in the 1870s.

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Later, such Cyrillic alphabets were created for some of the Siberian and Caucasus peoples who had recently converted to Christianity.

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The last language to adopt Cyrillic alphabets was the Gagauz language, which had used Greek script before.

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8.

Cyrillic alphabets used by Slavic languages can be divided into two categories:.

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Cyrillic alphabets alphabet was originally developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 9th – 10th century AD at the Preslav Literary School.

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10.

The Cyrillic alphabets alphabet was used in the then much bigger territory of Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Kosovo, Albania, Northern Greece, Romania and Moldova, officially from 893.

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Buryat Cyrillic alphabets script is similar to the Khalkha above, but ?? indicates palatalization as in Russian.

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Cyrillic alphabets script was used for the Bashkir language after the winter of 1938.

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Cyrillic alphabets alphabet is used for the Chuvash language since the late 19th century, with some changes in 1938.

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