Cyrillic
Cyrillic is used to write a wide variety of languages, including Russian, Ukrainian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Tatar, Kazakh, Tajik, Chechen, Bashkir, Dungan, Ossetian, Chukchi, Mari, Adyghe and Mongolian. Cyrillic was also used to write many other languages in the former Soviet Union that have switched to Latin since its dissolution, including Moldovan, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Turkmen and Crimean Tatar. Cyrillic originated as a variant of Glagolitic, a script developed by the Macedonian St Cyril (after whom Cyrillic is named), to spread Christian teachings to Southern Slavic speakers. Russian letterforms are generally taken to be the default in digital fonts, although writing traditions of Serbian, Bulgarian and Macedonian employ certain distinct letterforms, which can be controlled by the OpenType layout features in fonts.
Script Classification | Alphabet |
Letter Case | Upper and lower |
Commonly Used Quotation Marks | «...», „...“,“...”,‘...’ |
Numerals | Alphabetic numeral system [Rarely used, replaced by Hindu-Arabic numerals] |
Earliest Recorded Usage | c. 921 CE |
Used to Write | Russian, Ukrainian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Tatar, Kazakh, Tajik, Chechen, Bashkir, Dungan, Ossetian, Chukchi, Mari, Adyghe, Mongolian, Moldovan, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Crimean Tatar, etc. |
Added to Unicode | Version 1.0 (1991) |
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