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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 14 December 2024. 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 Moldovan language (an alternative name of the Romanian language in Bessarabia, Moldavian ASSR, Moldavian SSR and Moldova) used varieties of the Romanian Cyrillic alphabet in 1812–1918, and the Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet (derived from the Russian alphabet and standardised in the Soviet Union) in 1924–1932 and 1938–1989.
The Cyrillic script (/ s ɪ ˈ r ɪ l ɪ k / ⓘ sih-RIL-ik), Slavonic script or simply Slavic script 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 ...
The Greek alphabet is the ancestor of several scripts, such as the Latin, Gothic, Coptic, and Cyrillic scripts. [8] Throughout antiquity, Greek had only a single uppercase form of each letter. It was written without diacritics and with little punctuation . [ 9 ]
The earliest form of manuscript Cyrillic, known as ustav, was based on Greek uncial script, augmented by ligatures and by letters from the Glagolitic alphabet for consonants not found in Greek. [ 3 ] The Glagolitic script was created by the Byzantine monk Saint Cyril , possibly with the aid of his brother Saint Methodius , around 863. [ 3 ]
The following system has been used to transcribe Modern Greek terms in Russian texts, [1] [2] as well as in other languages using their version of the Cyrillic alphabet, like Macedonian. Greek Note
The Cyrillic letter А was derived directly from the Greek letter Alpha (Α α). In the Early Cyrillic alphabet its name was азъ (azǔ), meaning the letter "I". In the Cyrillic numeral system , the Cyrillic letter А has a value of 1.
The Cyrillic letter ge was derived directly from the Greek letter Gamma (Γ) in uncial script. In the Early Cyrillic alphabet , its name was глаголь ( glagol' ), meaning "speak". In the Cyrillic numeral system , it had a numerical value of 3.