Cyrillic alphabet

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[edit] 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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Cyrillic alphabet (plural Cyrillic alphabets)

  1. An alphabet developed in the 9th century[1] 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.

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An alphabet devised for writing the Old Church Slavonic liturgical language

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Paul Cubberley (1996) "The Slavic Alphabets". In Daniels and Bright, eds. The World's Writing Systems. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-507993-0.
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