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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 2 March 2025. See also: List of Cyrillic multigraphs Main articles: Cyrillic script, Cyrillic alphabets, and Early Cyrillic alphabet This article contains special characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. This is a list of letters of the Cyrillic ...
Numerous Cyrillic alphabets are based on the Cyrillic script. The early Cyrillic alphabet was developed in the 9th century AD and replaced the earlier Glagolitic script developed by the theologians Cyril and Methodius. It is the basis of alphabets used in various languages, past and present, Slavic origin, and non-Slavic languages influenced by ...
The digraph is known as Cyrillic "uk", and today's Cyrillic letter u originates from its simplified form. The letter's traditional name, izhitsa (ижица), is explained as a diminutive either of the word иго ( igo , "yoke"), due to the letter's shape, or of иже ( izhe , "which"), the name of the main Cyrillic and Glagolitic letters for ...
The next characters in the Cyrillic block, range U+0460–U+0489, are historical letters, some of which are still used for Church Slavonic. The characters in the range U+048A–U+04FF and the complete Cyrillic Supplement block (U+0500–U+052F) are additional letters for various languages that are written with Cyrillic script .
Ъ used to be a very common letter in the Russian alphabet. This is because before the 1918 reform, any word ending with a non-palatalized consonant was written with a final Ъ — e.g., pre-1918 вотъ vs. post-reform вот. The reform eliminated the use of Ъ in this context, leaving it the least common letter in the Russian alphabet.
The Early Cyrillic alphabet, also called classical Cyrillic or paleo-Cyrillic, is an alphabetic writing system that was developed in Medieval Bulgaria in the Preslav Literary School during the late 9th century. It is used to write the Church Slavonic language, and was historically used for its ancestor, Old Church Slavonic.
Russian – and later Soviet – railroads operated locomotives with designations of "І", "Ѵ" and "Ѳ". (Although the letter Ѵ was not mentioned in the spelling reform, [10] [11] contrary to the statement in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, [12] it had already become very rare prior to the revolution.) Despite the altered orthography, the ...
Other letters were late creations after a Cyrillic model. It should also be noted that Ⱑ corresponds to two different old Cyrillic letters (Ѣ and Ꙗ), present even in older manuscripts, and not to different later variants of the same Cyrillic letter in different times or places. [citation needed]