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	The '''Cyrillic alphabet''' (~~{{pron-en\|~~sɨˈrɪlɪk}}) is an alphabetic [[writing system]] developed in the [[First Bulgarian Empire]] during the 10th century AD at the [[Preslav Literary School]].<sup[1]</sup> and is used in various languages, past and present, of Eastern Europe and Asia, especially those of [[Slavic languages\|Slavic]] origin as well as non-Slavic languages influenced by Russian.		The '''Cyrillic alphabet''' (sɨˈrɪlɪk) is an alphabetic [[writing system]] developed in the [[First Bulgarian Empire]] during the 10th century AD at the [[Preslav Literary School]].<sup>[1]</sup> and is used in various languages, past and present, of Eastern Europe and Asia, especially those of [[Slavic languages\|Slavic]] origin as well as non-Slavic languages influenced by Russian.

	With the [[accession of Bulgaria to the European Union]] on 1 January 2007, Cyrillic became the third official alphabet of the [[European Union]], following the [[Latin alphabet\|Latin]] and [[Greek alphabet\|Greek]] alphabets.		With the [[accession of Bulgaria to the European Union]] on 1 January 2007, Cyrillic became the third official alphabet of the [[European Union]], following the [[Latin alphabet\|Latin]] and [[Greek alphabet\|Greek]] alphabets.

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	~~{{Infobox Writing system \|name=Cyrillic alphabet~~		The '''Cyrillic alphabet''' ({{pron-en\|sɨˈrɪlɪk}}) is an alphabetic [[writing system]] developed in the [[First Bulgarian Empire]] during the 10th century AD at the [[Preslav Literary School]].<sup[1]</sup> and is used in various languages, past and present, of Eastern Europe and Asia, especially those of [[Slavic languages\|Slavic]] origin as well as non-Slavic languages influenced by Russian.
	~~\|type=[[Alphabet]]~~
	~~\|time=[[early Cyrillic alphabet\|Earliest variants]] exist circa 940~~
	~~\|languages=Many [[East Slavic languages\|East]] and [[South Slavic languages\|South]] [[Slavic languages]], and almost all languages in the former [[Soviet Union]] (see [[Languages using Cyrillic]])~~
	\|names={{lang-be\|кірыліца}}, {{lang-bg\|кирилица}} {{IPA-bg\|ˈkirilit͡sɐ\|}}, {{lang-mk\|кирилица}} {{IPA\|[kiˈrilit͡sa]}}, {{lang-ru\|кириллица}} {{IPA-ru\|kʲɪˈrʲilʲɪtsə\|}}, {{lang-sr\|ћирилица}}, {{lang-uk\|кирилиця}})
	~~\|fam1=[[Phoenician alphabet]]~~
	~~\|fam2=[[Greek alphabet]]~~
	~~\|fam3=[[Early Cyrillic alphabet]]~~
	~~\|sisters=[[Latin alphabet]]<br />[[Coptic alphabet]]<br />[[Armenian alphabet]]<br />[[Glagolitic alphabet]]~~
	~~\|unicode= U+0400 to U+04FF <br />U+0500 to U+052F <br />U+2DE0 to U+2DFF <br />U+A640 to U+A69F~~
	~~\|iso15924=Cyrl <br />Cyrs (Old Church Slavonic variant)~~
	~~\|sample=Romanian Cyrillic - Lord's Prayer text.svg~~
	}}
	The '''Cyrillic alphabet''' ({{pron-en\|sɨˈrɪlɪk}}) is an alphabetic [[writing system]] developed in the [[First Bulgarian Empire]] during the 10th century AD at the [[Preslav Literary School]].<ref>Paul Cubberley (1996) "The Slavic Alphabets" and later finalized and spread by disciples Kliment and Naum in Ohrid and Preslav schools of Tsar Boris' Bulgaria. In Daniels and Bright, eds. The World's Writing Systems. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-507993-0.</~~ref~~> and is used in various languages, past and present, of Eastern Europe and Asia, especially those of [[Slavic languages\|Slavic]] origin as well as non-Slavic languages influenced by Russian.

	With the [[accession of Bulgaria to the European Union]] on 1 January 2007, Cyrillic became the third official alphabet of the [[European Union]], following the [[Latin alphabet\|Latin]] and [[Greek alphabet\|Greek]] alphabets.		With the [[accession of Bulgaria to the European Union]] on 1 January 2007, Cyrillic became the third official alphabet of the [[European Union]], following the [[Latin alphabet\|Latin]] and [[Greek alphabet\|Greek]] alphabets.

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	==See also==		==See also==
	~~{{Commons}}~~
	*[[.рф]]		*[[.рф]]
	*[[wiktionary:Appendix:Cyrillic script\|Appendix of Cyrillic alphabets]]		*[[wiktionary:Appendix:Cyrillic script\|Appendix of Cyrillic alphabets]]

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	==History==		==History==
	[[Image:Azbuka 1574 by Ivan Fyodorov.jpg\|left\|thumb\|A page from Azbuka, the first [[Russia]]n textbook, printed by [[Ivan Fyodorov (printer)\|Ivan Fyodorov]] in 1574. This page features the Cyrillic alphabet.]]		[[Image:Azbuka 1574 by Ivan Fyodorov.jpg\|left\|thumb\|A page from Azbuka, the first [[Russia]]n textbook, printed by [[Ivan Fyodorov (printer)\|Ivan Fyodorov]] in 1574. This page features the Cyrillic alphabet.]]
	~~{{Main\|~~Early Cyrillic alphabet}}
			See Also [[Early Cyrillic alphabet]]

	The Cyrillic alphabet was created in the [[First Bulgarian Empire]]<ref name="Paul Cubberley 1996">Paul Cubberley (1996) "The Slavic Alphabets" and later finalized and spread by disciples Kliment and Naum in Ohrid and Preslav schools of Tsar Boris' Bulgaria. In Daniels and Bright, eds. ''The World's Writing Systems.'' Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-507993-0.</ref> and is derived from the [[Greek alphabet\|Greek uncial script]], augmented by [[Typographic ligature\|ligature]]s and consonants from the older [[Glagolitic alphabet]] for sounds not found in Greek. Tradition holds that Cyrillic and Glagolitic were formalized either by the two [[Greeks\|Greek]] brothers born in [[Thessaloniki]], [[Saints Cyril and Methodius]] who brought Christianity to the southern Slavs, or by their disciples.<ref name="Columbia Encyclopedia 1972, p.846">''Columbia Encyclopedia'', Sixth Edition. 2001-05, s.v. "Cyril and Methodius, Saints"; ''Encyclopedia Britannica'', Encyclopedia Britannica Incorporated, Warren E. Preece - 1972, p.846, s.v., "Cyril and Methodius, Saints" and "Eastern Orthodoxy, Missions ancient and modern"; ''Encyclopedia of World Cultures'', David H. Levinson, 1991, p.239, s.v., "Social Science"; Eric M. Meyers, ''The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East'', p.151, 1997; Lunt, ''Slavic Review'', June, 1964, p. 216; Roman Jakobson, ''Crucial problems of Cyrillo-Methodian Studies''; Leonid Ivan Strakhovsky, ''A Handbook of Slavic Studies'', p.98; V. Bogdanovich, ''History of the ancient Serbian literature'', Belgrade, 1980, p.119</ref><ref name="ReferenceB">The Columbia Encyclopaedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05, O.Ed. Saints Cyril and Methodius "Cyril and Methodius, Saints) 869 and 884, respectively, “Greek missionaries, brothers, called Apostles to the Slavs and fathers of Slavonic literature."</ref><ref name=BritGlago>Encyclopedia Britannica, ''Major alphabets of the world, Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabets'', 2008, O.Ed. "The two early Slavic alphabets, the Cyrillic and the Glagolitic, were invented by St. Cyril, or Constantine (c. 827–869), and St. Methodii (c. 825–884). These men from Thessaloniki who became apostles to the southern Slavs, whom they converted to Christianity."</ref><ref>{{Cite book \| last1 = Kazhdan \| first1 = Alexander P. \| title = The Oxford dictionary of Byzantium \| year = 1991 \| publisher = Oxford University Press \| location = New York \| isbn = 0-19-504652-8 \| pages = 507\|quote=Constantine (Cyril) and his brother Methodius were the sons of the droungarios Leo and Maria, who may have been a Slav.}}</ref> Paul Cubberly posits that while Cyril may have codified and expanded Glagolitic, it was his students at the [[Preslav Literary School]] in the [[First Bulgarian Empire]] that developed Cyrillic from Greek in the 890s as a more suitable script for church books.<ref name="Paul Cubberley 1996"/> Later the alphabet spread among other Slavic peoples - [[Russians]], [[Serbs]] and others, as well as among non-Slavic [[Vlachs]] and [[Moldovans\|Moldavians]].		The Cyrillic alphabet was created in the [[First Bulgarian Empire]]<ref name="Paul Cubberley 1996">Paul Cubberley (1996) "The Slavic Alphabets" and later finalized and spread by disciples Kliment and Naum in Ohrid and Preslav schools of Tsar Boris' Bulgaria. In Daniels and Bright, eds. ''The World's Writing Systems.'' Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-507993-0.</ref> and is derived from the [[Greek alphabet\|Greek uncial script]], augmented by [[Typographic ligature\|ligature]]s and consonants from the older [[Glagolitic alphabet]] for sounds not found in Greek. Tradition holds that Cyrillic and Glagolitic were formalized either by the two [[Greeks\|Greek]] brothers born in [[Thessaloniki]], [[Saints Cyril and Methodius]] who brought Christianity to the southern Slavs, or by their disciples.<ref name="Columbia Encyclopedia 1972, p.846">''Columbia Encyclopedia'', Sixth Edition. 2001-05, s.v. "Cyril and Methodius, Saints"; ''Encyclopedia Britannica'', Encyclopedia Britannica Incorporated, Warren E. Preece - 1972, p.846, s.v., "Cyril and Methodius, Saints" and "Eastern Orthodoxy, Missions ancient and modern"; ''Encyclopedia of World Cultures'', David H. Levinson, 1991, p.239, s.v., "Social Science"; Eric M. Meyers, ''The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East'', p.151, 1997; Lunt, ''Slavic Review'', June, 1964, p. 216; Roman Jakobson, ''Crucial problems of Cyrillo-Methodian Studies''; Leonid Ivan Strakhovsky, ''A Handbook of Slavic Studies'', p.98; V. Bogdanovich, ''History of the ancient Serbian literature'', Belgrade, 1980, p.119</ref><ref name="ReferenceB">The Columbia Encyclopaedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05, O.Ed. Saints Cyril and Methodius "Cyril and Methodius, Saints) 869 and 884, respectively, “Greek missionaries, brothers, called Apostles to the Slavs and fathers of Slavonic literature."</ref><ref name=BritGlago>Encyclopedia Britannica, ''Major alphabets of the world, Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabets'', 2008, O.Ed. "The two early Slavic alphabets, the Cyrillic and the Glagolitic, were invented by St. Cyril, or Constantine (c. 827–869), and St. Methodii (c. 825–884). These men from Thessaloniki who became apostles to the southern Slavs, whom they converted to Christianity."</ref><ref>{{Cite book \| last1 = Kazhdan \| first1 = Alexander P. \| title = The Oxford dictionary of Byzantium \| year = 1991 \| publisher = Oxford University Press \| location = New York \| isbn = 0-19-504652-8 \| pages = 507\|quote=Constantine (Cyril) and his brother Methodius were the sons of the droungarios Leo and Maria, who may have been a Slav.}}</ref> Paul Cubberly posits that while Cyril may have codified and expanded Glagolitic, it was his students at the [[Preslav Literary School]] in the [[First Bulgarian Empire]] that developed Cyrillic from Greek in the 890s as a more suitable script for church books.<ref name="Paul Cubberley 1996"/> Later the alphabet spread among other Slavic peoples - [[Russians]], [[Serbs]] and others, as well as among non-Slavic [[Vlachs]] and [[Moldovans\|Moldavians]].

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	==As used in various languages==		==As used in various languages==
	~~{{Main\|~~Cyrillic alphabet variants\|Languages using Cyrillic\|List of Cyrillic letters\|Cyrillic digraphs}}
			See Also [[Cyrillic alphabet variants\|Languages using Cyrillic]], [[List of Cyrillic letters]], [[Cyrillic digraphs]]

	[[Image:Cyrillic alphabet world distribution.svg\|thumb\|right\|350px\|Distribution of the Cyrillic alphabet worldwide. This map shows the countries in the world that use the Cyrillic alphabet: using dark-green for countries who use it as the official alphabet, mid-green for those who use it as one of multiple official alphabets, and light-green for countries that formerly used the Cyrillic alphabet but do not do so currently.]]		[[Image:Cyrillic alphabet world distribution.svg\|thumb\|right\|350px\|Distribution of the Cyrillic alphabet worldwide. This map shows the countries in the world that use the Cyrillic alphabet: using dark-green for countries who use it as the official alphabet, mid-green for those who use it as one of multiple official alphabets, and light-green for countries that formerly used the Cyrillic alphabet but do not do so currently.]]
	Among others, Cyrillic is the standard alphabet for writing the following [[national language]]s:		Among others, Cyrillic is the standard alphabet for writing the following [[national language]]s:

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	~~{{Infobox Writing system \|name=Cyrillic alphabet~~		The '''Cyrillic alphabet''' ({{pron-en\|sɨˈrɪlɪk}}) is an alphabetic [[writing system]] developed in the [[First Bulgarian Empire]] during the 10th century AD at the [[Preslav Literary School]].<sup[1]</sup> and is used in various languages, past and present, of Eastern Europe and Asia, especially those of [[Slavic languages\|Slavic]] origin as well as non-Slavic languages influenced by Russian.
	~~\|type=[[Alphabet]]~~
	~~\|time=[[early Cyrillic alphabet\|Earliest variants]] exist circa 940~~
	~~\|languages=Many [[East Slavic languages\|East]] and [[South Slavic languages\|South]] [[Slavic languages]], and almost all languages in the former [[Soviet Union]] (see [[Languages using Cyrillic]])~~
	\|names={{lang-be\|кірыліца}}, {{lang-bg\|кирилица}} {{IPA-bg\|ˈkirilit͡sɐ\|}}, {{lang-mk\|кирилица}} {{IPA\|[kiˈrilit͡sa]}}, {{lang-ru\|кириллица}} {{IPA-ru\|kʲɪˈrʲilʲɪtsə\|}}, {{lang-sr\|ћирилица}}, {{lang-uk\|кирилиця}})
	~~\|fam1=[[Phoenician alphabet]]~~
	~~\|fam2=[[Greek alphabet]]~~
	~~\|fam3=[[Early Cyrillic alphabet]]~~
	~~\|sisters=[[Latin alphabet]]<br />[[Coptic alphabet]]<br />[[Armenian alphabet]]<br />[[Glagolitic alphabet]]~~
	~~\|unicode= U+0400 to U+04FF <br />U+0500 to U+052F <br />U+2DE0 to U+2DFF <br />U+A640 to U+A69F~~
	~~\|iso15924=Cyrl <br />Cyrs (Old Church Slavonic variant)~~
	~~\|sample=Romanian Cyrillic - Lord's Prayer text.svg~~
	}}
	The '''Cyrillic alphabet''' ({{pron-en\|sɨˈrɪlɪk}}) is an alphabetic [[writing system]] developed in the [[First Bulgarian Empire]] during the 10th century AD at the [[Preslav Literary School]].<ref>Paul Cubberley (1996) "The Slavic Alphabets" and later finalized and spread by disciples Kliment and Naum in Ohrid and Preslav schools of Tsar Boris' Bulgaria. In Daniels and Bright, eds. The World's Writing Systems. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-507993-0.</~~ref~~> and is used in various languages, past and present, of Eastern Europe and Asia, especially those of [[Slavic languages\|Slavic]] origin as well as non-Slavic languages influenced by Russian.

	With the [[accession of Bulgaria to the European Union]] on 1 January 2007, Cyrillic became the third official alphabet of the [[European Union]], following the [[Latin alphabet\|Latin]] and [[Greek alphabet\|Greek]] alphabets.		With the [[accession of Bulgaria to the European Union]] on 1 January 2007, Cyrillic became the third official alphabet of the [[European Union]], following the [[Latin alphabet\|Latin]] and [[Greek alphabet\|Greek]] alphabets.