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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 14 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 last language to adopt Cyrillic was the Gagauz language, which had used Greek script before. In Uzbekistan , Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan , the use of Cyrillic to write local languages has often been a politically controversial issue since the collapse of the Soviet Union , as it evokes the era of Soviet rule and Russification .
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 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 ] .
Letter А, page from Elisabeth Boehm's Azbuka. А (А а; italics: A ɑ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It commonly represents an open central unrounded vowel /ä/, halfway between the pronunciation of a in "cat" and "father". The Cyrillic letter А is romanized using the Latin letter A.
The Cyrillic letter El was derived from the Greek letter lambda (Λ λ). In the Early Cyrillic alphabet its name was людиѥ (ljudije), meaning "people". [1] In the Cyrillic numeral system, Л had a value of 30.
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 Cyrillic letters Be and Ve (В в) were both derived from the Greek letter Beta (Β β). In the Early Cyrillic alphabet the name of the letter Be was бѹкы (buky/ буки), meaning "letter". In the Cyrillic numeral system, the letter Be had no numeric value because the letter Ve inherited the Greek letter Beta's numeric value.