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The Early Cyrillic alphabet was a writing system developed in Bulgaria during the 10th century A.D. for the writing of Old Church Slavonic. With Christianity having been made the official state religion in 864, King Boris I commissioned the creation of the alphabet. Climent of Ochrid developed the alphabet and named it for his teacher, St. Cyril, a missionary who, along with his brother, Methodius, is credited with inventing the Glagolitic alphabet, an earlier Slavic alphabet and an influence on this one. 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.See also: reforms of Russian orthographyThe Russian language adopted the Cyrillic alphabet, almost certainly during the tenth century and at about the same time as the introduction of Eastern Christianity into the territories inhabited by the Eastern Slavs. An earlier rune-like and possibly syl.
This chart displays the most common letters of the Early Cyrillic, and, for each, its most common name in Old Church Slavonic, common Roman alphabet transliterations, and common International Phonetic AlphabetThis article is about the alphabet officially used in linguistics. The NATO phonetic alphabet ("alpha bravo") has been informally and nonstandardly called the International Phonetic Alphabet as well. The International Phonetic Alphabet is a phonetic alpha descriptions.
Although upper- and lowercase letters are shown here and supported in UnicodeIn computing, Unicode is the international standard whose goal is to provide the means to encode the text of every document people want to store in computers. This includes all scripts still in active use today, many scripts known only by scholars, and sy, Old Church Slavonic texts did not differentiate letter case. Several diacriticA diacritic mark or accent mark is an additional mark added to a basic letter. The word derives from Greek , distinguishing and diacritical is used to mean distinguishing or distinctive. The mark can be added over, under, or through the letter. But not als, adopted from the old Greek alphabetPolytonic Greek script is the standard way of writing ancient Greek and Kathareuousa, and a deprecated way of writing Dhimotiki, the standard form of the modern Greek language. Polytonic Greek utilizes a set of five diacritic marks: The accents (tonoi, :, were also used:
- oksia , indicating a stressed syllable ( UnicodeIn computing, Unicode is the international standard whose goal is to provide the means to encode the text of every document people want to store in computers. This includes all scripts still in active use today, many scripts known only by scholars, and sy U+1FFD), similar to an acute accentThe acute accent is a diacritic mark used in written French, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Greek, Welsh, Hungarian, Faroese, Icelandic, Italian, Swedish, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Vietnamese, Dutch, Irish Gaelic and other languages. Openess In French and Ita
- variaVaria is also the name of a grave accent used in Polytonic Greek script. The Varia Suit is an armor expansion used by Samus Aran in Nintendo's Metroid video game series. In the television series Xena: Warrior Princess Varia is the granddaughter of Ares an, indicating stress on the last syllable (U+1FEF), similar to a grave accent
- kamora , indicating palatalization (U+0484), similar to an inverted breve
- dasia pneumata, rough breathing mark (U+0485)
- psili pneumata, soft breathing mark (U+0486)
- titlo, indicating abbreviations, or letters used as numerals (U+0483)
- trema, diaeresis (U+0308)
Punctuation marks:
Cyrillic alphabet
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