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Ads by Google      Cyrillic alphabet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The early Cyrillic alphabet is difficult to represent on computers. The Moldovan language used the Cyrillic alphabet between 1946 and 1989. The development of some Cyrillic computer typefaces from Latin ones has also contributed to the visual Latinization of Cyrillic type. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_alphabet   (2873 words)      Alphabet Transitions: Chronology of the New Latin Script In addition to Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic, even Old Runic (an alphabet of the 7th and 8th centuries) was discussed as a possibility, Latin, however, generated the most interest. Latin replaced Arabic in 1928, followed by Stalin's imposition of Cyrillic in 1938, which remained until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. At this conference, the conclusion was reached that, given the sound patterns in the Turkic languages, Latin was the optimal alphabet to express these sounds. http://www.azer.com/aiweb/categories/magazine/52_folder/52_articles/52_alphabet.html   (2009 words)      Croatian Cyrillic Script documents of the Vatican library all refer exclusively to Croatian documents), thus Croatian alphabet, see p.50 of Daniels' book. The first printed Croatian Cyrillic book was The Book of Hours (or the Dubrovnik breviary, or Oficje) published in Venice in 1512, prepared by Franjo Ratkovic from Dubrovnik. the Croatian Cyrillic inscription of the Povlja lintel (1184) from the Benedictine monastery in the village of Povlja on the island of Brac near Split; http://www.hr/darko/etf/et04.html   (2008 words)      wikien.info: Main_Page Ukrainian has a letter ï, which is not an i-umlaut, but a separate letter in their alphabet. Examples are writing numerals in numeral systems, such as early Greek numerals and marking abbreviations with the titlo in old Slavic texts. The main usage of a diacritic is to change the phonetic meaning of the letter, but the term is also used in a more general sense of changing the meaning of the letter or even the whole word. http://www.alanaditescili.net/index.php?title=Diacritic   (2119 words)      DIAERESIS FACTS AND INFORMATION The modern Cyrillic Belarusian and Russian_alphabets include the letter Yo (Ё, ё), although in modern Russian it is usually printed without the diaeresis (Е,е) unless doing so would create ambiguity. Diaeresis was used in the early_Cyrillic_alphabet which was used to write Old_Church_Slavonic. This usage of umlauted letters, particularly ''ü'', also occurs in the transcription of languages that do not use the Roman alphabet, such as Chinese. http://www.whereintheworldisbush.com/diaeresis   (1259 words)      Grapes Unlimited Bulgarian uses the Cyrillic alphabet, as do the Russian, Serbian, and Macedonian languages. Cyrillic is one of two ancient Slavic alphabets that were invented, according to manuscripts, by St. The Cyrillic alphabet appears difficult to get the hang of at first, but in the case of Bulgarian it is almost http://www.grapesunlimited.com/cyrillic.html   (1115 words)      A (Cyrillic) - encyclopedia article about A (Cyrillic). The Cyrillic А looks exactly like the Latin A The letter A is the first (1st) letter in the Latin alphabet. It was designed originally to cover languages using a Cyrillic alphabet such as Bulgarian, Belarusian, Russian, and Ukrainian (except for the letter Ge, which was unused in the Soviet Union), but never got widespread use. А (А, а) is the first letter of the Cyrillic alphabet The Cyrillic alphabet (or azbuka, from the old name of the first letters) is an alphabet used to write six natural Slavic languages (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian) and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe. http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/A+(Cyrillic)   (942 words)      Diaresis The modern Cyrillic Belarusian and Russian alphabets include the letter Yo (Ё, ё), although in modern Russian it is usually printed without the diaeresis (&;) unless doing so would create ambiguity. Diaeresis was used in the early Cyrillic alphabet which was used to write Old Church Slavonic. The Cyrillic alphabet letters A, O and U (А, & have been used in the Altay, Mari and Keräşen Tatar alphabets for the sounds ä, ö, ü since the 19th century. http://www.apawn.com/search.php?title=Diaresis   (1230 words)      AncientScripts.com: Greek The Greek alphabet was also the basis for Glagolitic, Cyrillic, and Coptic scripts among others. The alphabet, on the other hand, allowed more precise record of the sounds in the language. Eventually the Ionian alphabet was adopted in all Greek-speaking states, but before that happened, the Euboean variant was carried to the Italic peninsula and adopted by Etruscan and eventually the Romans. http://www.ancientscripts.com/greek.html   (469 words)      Arabic_alphabet All the Muslim peoples of the USSR between 1918-1928 (many also earlier), including Bashkir, Chechen, Kazakh, Tajik etc. After 1928 their script became Latin, then later Cyrillic. Because the Qur'an, the holy book of Islam, is written with this alphabet, its influence spread with that of Islam and it has been, and still is, used to write many other languages from families unrelated to the Semitic languages, such as Persian and Urdu. In order to accommodate the phonetics of other languages, the alphabet has been adapted by the addition of letters and other symbols. http://www.apawn.com/search.php?title=Arabic_alphabet   (3357 words)      Hebrew alphabet --  Encyclopædia Britannica Using a special numerical system similar to that of the Greek and Hebrew alphabets, which assign a number to each letter, modern... Early Hebrew was the alphabet used by the Jewish nation in the period before the Babylonian Exile—i.e., prior to the 6th century BC—although some inscriptions in this alphabet may be of a later date. It was used in Syria as early as the 11th century BC and is probably ancestral, either directly or indirectly, to all subsequent alphabetic scripts, with the possible exception of those scripts classified as South Semitic (e.g., Ethiopic, Sabaean). http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9039759?tocId=9039759   (826 words)      Dennis M. - Languages - Russian In Russian, they use the CYRILLIC ALFABET, an alphabet that was constructed in the early centuries A.D. by Christian Missionaries to They created this alphabet by borrowing symbols from both the Greek and Hebrew alphabets, and a few new symbols for sounds that didn't exist in Greek or Hebrew, such as the "CH" sound (as in cheese), and the "ZH" sound (as in 'pleasure' or_ 'soup du jour.') Let's look at the entire cyrillic alphabet. ____The first step to learning any written language of the world is to learn about the Alphabet that the language uses. http://www.calvin.edu/~dmd3/languages/Russian/basics.htm   (207 words)      World Scholars: Bulgarians Keep Your Alphabet The Cyrillic alphabet paved Bulgaria's entry in the European community as early as the ninth century, and should not be discarded at any cost. The brothers were born in Thessalonica, in 827 and 826 respectively, and are celebrated as the fathers of Slavic literary culture and the creators of the Cyrillic alphabet. None of the scholars even takes this idea seriously, Nikolova says, as they all understand that the problem of Bulgaria's integration in Europehas nothing to do with the alphabet. http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=53000   (642 words)      Early Cyrillic alphabet - definition of Early Cyrillic alphabet in Encyclopedia The Early Cyrillic alphabet was a writing system developed in Bulgaria during the 10th century A.D. for the writing of Old Church Slavonic. In the following centuries, the Early Cyrillic was replaced by a later form, the Modern Cyrillic alphabet, which is still widely in use throughout Asia and Eastern Europe. Climent of Ochrid developed the alphabet and named it for his teacher, St. http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Early_Cyrillic_alphabet   (301 words)      MSN Encarta - Alphabet The Cyrillic alphabet, in various forms, is used currently in Russian, Ukrainian, Byelorussian, Serbian, Bulgarian, and Macedonian—languages spoken by Eastern Orthodox Christians. Some of the alphabet’s symbols may also have been taken from related writing systems, such as those used by the Minoans and Hittites. One of the most important Indian alphabets, the Devanagari alphabet used in the Sanskrit language, is an ingenious combination of syllabic and true alphabetic principles (see Indian Languages). http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761565349_2/Alphabet.html   (1566 words)      Keyboard Stickers - Russian, Arabic/Farsi, Hebrew, Cyrillic, Greek Cyrillic alphabets: Belarusian, Bulgarian, Tatar, Ukrainian, Macedonian, Serbian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, and many others. Cyrillic alphabet is used to write six natural Slavic languages (Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Serbian, Macedonian, and Bulgarian) and many other languages of the former USSR, Asia and Eastern Europe. The alphabet structure is based on the Early Cyrillic alphabet, that was inherited from the Glagolitic alphabet, an uncial cursive designed by brothers Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius in mid 9th century. http://www.latkey.com/keyboard_stickers.asp?SubCat=5   (184 words)      BOSNIAN CYRILLIC FACTS AND INFORMATION This extinct form of Cyrillic is peripheral to Croatian paleography which focuses on Glagolitic and Latin script corpora while Bosniaks, although paying lip service to Bosnian Cyrillic heritage, have been focusing efforts on their vernacular literature in modified Arabic script. Although some do claim that the Serbian could be a reference to the language instead of the alphabet itself. In this stone inscription are visible patterns that will follow the development of Bosnian Cyrillic throughout history, its origins seedes in the Glagolitic script as all Cyrillic writing systems. http://www.witwib.com/Bosnian_Cyrillic   (1019 words)      Wiktionary:Romanian language - Wiktionary It is written using the Cyrillic alphabet, like all early Romanian writings (because the usual language for religious services was old Slavonian). The Romanian alphabet is phonetic, so the words are read just nearly as in Italian/Latin (with the exception of the diacrical). Today, the Romanian alphabet is largely phonetic, with one exception: the "andacirc" (used inside the words) and "andicirc" (used at the beginning or the end), both representing the same sound. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Romanian_language   (747 words)      Old Church Slavonic The Cyrillic alphabet was used to write the Old Church Slavonic language and was later adapated to write many other languages. Sometime during the 10th century AD a new alphabet appeared which was known as Cyrillic and named after St Cyril. Cyril and Methodius based their translations on a Slavonic dialect of the Thessalonika area and invented a new alphabet, Glagolitic, in order to write them. http://www.omniglot.com/writing/ocslavonic.htm   (368 words)      Cyrillic Alphabet - Balkan Forums I also presented Serbian Cyrillic script in Introducing Serbian Azbuka (Alphabet) thread, in which I presented the names and pronounciation of each Serbian letter. Cyrillic alphabet, as Latin, is of the same origin as Greek alphabet. According to all that, avantgarde opinions on Cyrillic script say that it was in use, as a variation of Greek alphabet, long before Cyril and Methodius, and that Kliment and Naum only transcribed Sacred Books into it and standardized it, and not invented it. http://www.balkanforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=746   (946 words)      Old Church Slavonic Online The following chart depicts the Cyrillic alphabetic character, its Cyrillic numerical value (which may differ slightly from its Glagolitic numerical value), its Slavonic name, its Roman transliteration, and a guide to its pronunciation. The Cyrillic alphabet is similar to the Greek alphabet from which it is derived. The early OCS documents are written primarily in two alphabets, Glagolitic or Cyrillic. http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/lrc/eieol/ocsol-1.html   (3191 words)      Bulgarian language, alphabet and pronunciation Bulgarian was the first Slavic language to be written: it start to appear in writing during the 9th century in the Glagolitic alphabet, which was gradually replaced by an early version of the Cyrillic alphabet over the following centuries. At the end of the 18th century the Russian version of Cyrillic or the "civil script" of Peter the Great (1672-1725) was adapated to write Bulgarian as a result of the influence of printed books from Russia. This version remained in use until the orthographic reform of 1945 when the letters yat (&;), and yus (&;) were removed from the alphabet. http://www.omniglot.com/writing/bulgarian.htm   (321 words)      Face of Russia: Cyrillic Alphabet The Cyrillic Alphabet was named for St. Cyril, although there is some dispute as to whether this is the alphabet he invented or not. In Russia, Cyrillic was first written in the early Middle Ages in clear-cut, legible ustav (large letters). Further unnecessary letters were expunged in 1918, leaving the alphabet as it is today—still in use in many Slavic Orthodox countries. http://www.pbs.org/weta/faceofrussia/reference/cyrillic.html   (147 words)      Early Cyrillic alphabet -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article ((An alphabet drived from the Greek alphabet and used for writing Slavic languages) Cyrillic) Early Cyrillic alphabet -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article Cyril, a missionary who, along with his brother, (Click link for more info and facts about Methodius) Methodius, is credited with inventing the (Click link for more info and facts about Glagolitic alphabet) Glagolitic alphabet, an earlier (A branch of the Indo European family of language) Slavic alphabet and an influence on this one. http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/e/ea/early_cyrillic_alphabet.htm   (865 words)      Guardian Unlimited Books By genre Review: The Alphabet by David Sacks The country had changed from the Cyrillic alphabet used by Russian to the Roman letters used by English, among other languages. For the most important, extraordinary fact about alphabets is that, as David Sacks puts it, they have "routinely jumped from language to language". Coincidentally, the language on which the new Azeri alphabet is closely modelled, modern Turkish, itself switched from Arabic to Roman letters in the 1920s, under Kemal Atatürk's westernising influence. http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/referenceandlanguages/0,6121,1112273,00.html   (1290 words)      Upto11.net - Wikipedia Article for Psi The letter Psi was also used in the Early Cyrillic alphabet. Psi (andPsi; andpsi;) is a letter of the Greek alphabet. In mathematics (and#1136;, and#1137;) is the angle between the tangent and the x-axis in the intrinsic coordinates system. http://www.upto11.net/generic_wiki.php?q=psi   (125 words)      AncientScripts.com: Glagolitic The oldest recorded form of a Slavic language is Old Church Slavonic, which used both Cyrillic (with 44 letters!) and its version of Glagolitic, which looks like this: The students of St. Cyril might have found Glagolitic "undignified and unsuitable for ecclesiastical use" (Hersey) because of its cursive shapes, and derived Cyrillic from an already liturgical script. It is thought that students of St. Cyril created the Cyrillic to replace Glagolitic. http://www.ancientscripts.com/glagolitic.html   (200 words)      Cyrillic Alphabet -- historical notes gives some early information about the Cyrillic alphabet. By the end of the 900s, Eastern Orthodox Christianity and Cyrillic alphabets had spread to Macedonia, Serbia, and Rus (the forerunner of Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine). Return to alphabet pronunciation guide (without Cyrillic images). http://www.cyberussr.com/rus/azbuka-hist.html   (160 words)      Cyrillic alphabet - Wikimedia Commons Individual images for all the w:Cyrillic alphabet letters used in w:Slavic languages, shown here in Unicode order. This page was last modified 13:07, 9 June 2005. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_alphabet   (34 words)      Izhitsa Izhitsa (&;) is a letter of the early Cyrillic alphabet. http://www.worldhistory.com/wiki/I/Izhitsa.htm   (162 words)

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