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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 ClassificationAlphabet
Letter CaseUpper and lower
Commonly Used Quotation Marks«...», „...“,“...”,‘...’
NumeralsAlphabetic numeral system [Rarely used, replaced by Hindu-Arabic numerals]
Earliest Recorded Usagec. 921 CE
Used to WriteRussian, Ukrainian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Tatar, Kazakh, Tajik, Chechen, Bashkir, Dungan, Ossetian, Chukchi, Mari, Adyghe, Mongolian, Moldovan, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Crimean Tatar, etc.
Added to UnicodeVersion 1.0 (1991)
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  • November Slab Compressed
    November Slab Compressed18 styles
  • November Slab Condensed
    November Slab Condensed18 styles
  • November Stencil
    November Stencil10 styles
  • Wind
    Wind4 styles
  • November
    November18 styles
  • November Compressed
    November Compressed18 styles
  • November Condensed
    November Condensed18 styles
  • Manu
    Manu4 styles
  • October
    October18 styles
  • October Compressed
    October Compressed18 styles
  • October Condensed
    October Condensed18 styles
  • William Display
    William Display4 styles
  • William Subhead
    William Subhead4 styles
  • William Text
    William Text4 styles
  • Echo
    Echo10 styles
  • Greta Mono
    Greta Mono20 styles
  • Greta Mono Condensed
    Greta Mono Condensed20 styles
  • Tesla Mono
    Tesla Mono12 styles
  • Tesla Slab
    Tesla Slab12 styles
  • Tesla Stencil
    Tesla Stencil6 styles
  • Parmigiano Caption
    Parmigiano Caption12 styles
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