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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 19 February 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 ...
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 .
The letter Ѫ was also used for the same purpose alongside its normal usage. In 1899, both letters replaced in verb conjugations by Я and А in all cases as part of the new Ivanchov Orthography. The Cyrillic alphabet was originally developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 9th – 10th century AD at the Preslav Literary School. [2] [3]
The Cyrillic script (/ s ɪ ˈ r ɪ l ɪ k / ⓘ sih-RIH-lick) is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia.It is the designated national script in various Slavic, Turkic, Mongolic, Uralic, Caucasian and Iranic-speaking countries in Southeastern Europe, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, North Asia, and East Asia, and used by many other minority languages.
The letter ѧ was adapted to represent the iotated /ja/ я in the middle or end of a word; the modern letter я is an adaptation of its cursive form of the seventeenth century, enshrined by the typographical reform of 1708. Until 1708, the iotated /ja/ was written ꙗ at the beginning of a word.
This is a simple navigation table listing all letters in the Cyrillic script. It should be placed at the beginning of each article about a letter of the Cyrillic script. The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Cyrillic alphabet sidebar/doc .
Tse is thought to have come from the Hebrew letter Tsadi צ or the Arabic letter ص, via the Glagolitic letter Tsi (Ⱌ ⱌ). [1] It is unclear what Egyptian hieroglyph originated the letter Tse, possibly derived from an image of a fish hook or a papyrus plant. The name of Tse in the Early Cyrillic alphabet is ци (tsi).
The details vary by author, and depend on which letters are available for the language of the text. For instance, in a work written in Ukrainian , г may be used for [ ɣ ] (the voiced equivalent of х ), whereas in Russian texts, г is used for [ ɡ ] .