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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]].^[1] 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. ==Letters== As the Cyrillic alphabet spread throughout the East and South Slavic territories, it was adopted for writing local languages, such as [[Old East Slavic language|Old East Slavic]]. Its adaptation to the characteristics of local languages led to the development of its many modern variants, below. {| cellpadding=4 style="font-size:larger; text-align:center;" class="Unicode" summary="Letters of the early Cyrillic alphabet" |+ style="font-size:smaller;" | The early Cyrillic alphabet |- | [[А]] || [[Б]] || [[В]] || [[Г]] || [[Д]] || [[Е]] || [[Ж]] || [[Ѕ]] || [[З]] || [[И]] || [[І]] || [[К]] || [[Л]] || [[М]] || [[Н]] || [[О]] || [[П]] || [[Ҁ]] || [[Р]] || [[С]] || [[Т]] || [[Ѹ]] |- | [[Ф]] || [[Х]] || [[Ѡ]] || [[Ц]] || [[Ч]] || [[Ш]] || [[Щ]] || [[Ъ]] || [[Ꙑ]] || [[Ь]] || [[Ѣ]] || [[Iotated A (Cyrillic)|Ꙗ]] || [[Ѥ]] || [[Ю]] || [[Ѧ]] || [[Ѫ]] || [[Ѩ]] || [[Ѭ]] || [[Ѯ]] || [[Ѱ]] || [[Ѳ]] || [[Ѵ]] |} Capital and lowercase letters were not distinguished in old manuscripts. [[Image:Meletius Smotrisky Cyrillic Alphabet.PNG|thumb|A page from the ''Church Slavonic Grammar'' of [[Meletius Smotrytsky]] (1619).]] Yeri (Ы) was originally a [[ligature (typography)|ligature]] of Yer and I (Ꙑ). [[Iotation]] was indicated by ligatures formed with the letter I: [[Iotated A (Cyrillic)|Ꙗ]] (not ancestor of modern ya, Я, which is derived from Ѧ), {{Unicode|Ѥ}}, Ю (ligature of I and ОУ), {{Unicode|Ѩ}}, {{Unicode|Ѭ}}. Many letters had variant forms and commonly used ligatures, for example И=І=Ї, {{Unicode|Ѡ}}={{Unicode|Ѻ}}, Оу ⁄ ОУ={{Unicode|Ѹ}}, {{Unicode|ѠТ}}={{Unicode|Ѿ}}. The letters also had numeric values, based not on the native Cyrillic alphabetical order, but inherited from the letters' [[Greek numerals|Greek ancestors]]. {| cellpadding=4 style="text-align:center;" class="Unicode" summary="Letters of the Early Cyrillic alphabet" |+ [[Cyrillic numerals]] |- | 1 || 2 || 3 || 4 || 5 || 6 || 7 || 8 || 9 |- | А || В || Г || Д || Е || Ѕ || З || И || Ѳ |- |colspan="9"| |- | 10|| 20|| 30|| 40|| 50|| 60|| 70|| 80|| 90 |- | І || К || Л || М || Н || Ѯ || О || П || Ч |- |colspan="9"| |- |100||200||300||400||500||600||700||800||900 |- | Р || С || Т || Ѵ || Ф || Х || Ѱ || Ѡ || Ц |} The early Cyrillic alphabet is difficult to represent on computers. Many of the letterforms differed from modern Cyrillic, varied a great deal in [[manuscript]]s, and changed over time. Few fonts include adequate [[glyph]]s to reproduce the alphabet. In accordance with [[Unicode]] policy, the standard does not include letterform variations or [[Ligature (typography)|ligatures]] found in manuscript sources unless they can be shown to conform to the Unicode definition of a character. The Unicode 5.1 standard, released on 4 April 2008, greatly improves computer support for the early Cyrillic and the modern [[Church Slavonic]] language. ==Letterforms and typography== The development of Cyrillic [[typography]] passed directly from the [[medieval]] stage to the late [[Baroque]], without a [[Renaissance]] phase as in [[Western Europe]]. Late Medieval Cyrillic letters (still found on many [[icon]] inscriptions even today) show a marked tendency to be very tall and narrow; strokes are often shared between adjacent letters. [[Peter I of Russia|Peter the Great]], Tsar of Russia, mandated the use of westernized letter forms in the early 18th century. Over time, these were largely adopted in the other languages that use the alphabet. Thus, unlike the majority of modern Greek fonts that retained their own set of design principles for their lower case letters (such as the placement of [[serif]]s, the shapes of stroke ends, and stroke-thickness rules, although Greek capital letters do use Latin design principles), modern Cyrillic fonts are much the same as modern Latin fonts of the same font family. The development of some Cyrillic computer typefaces from Latin ones has also contributed to the visual Latinization of Cyrillic type. Cyrillic [[Capital letters|uppercase]] and [[Lower case|lowercase]] letterforms are not as differentiated as in Latin typography. Upright Cyrillic lowercase letters are essentially [[small caps|small capitals]] (with exceptions: Cyrillic ‹а, е, p, and y› adopted Western lowercase shapes, lowercase ‹ф› is typically designed under the influence of Latin ‹p›, lowercase ‹б› is a traditional handwritten form), although a good-quality Cyrillic typeface will still include separate small-caps glyphs.<ref>Bringhurst (2002) writes "in Cyrillic, the difference between normal lower case and small caps is more subtle than it is in the Latin or Greek alphabets,..." (p 32) and "in most Cyrillic faces, the lower case is close in color and shape to Latin small caps" (p 107).</ref> [[Image:Cyrillic upright-cursive.png|frame|right|Comparison of some upright and hand-written letters (Ge, De, I, I kratkoye, Em, Te and Tse. Top row is set in Georgia font, bottom in Kisty CY)]] Cyrillic fonts, as well as Latin ones, have [[Roman type|roman]] and [[Italic type|italic]] type (practically all popular modern fonts include parallel sets of Latin and Cyrillic letters, where many glyphs, uppercase as well as lowercase, are simply shared by both). However, the native font terminology in Slavic languages (for example, in Russian) does not use the words "roman" and "italic" in this sense.<ref>Name ''ital'yanskiy shrift'' (Italian font) in Russian refers to a particular font family [http://citforum.univ.kiev.ua/open_source/fonts/theory/thumbs/ris320.jpg], whereas ''rimskiy shrift'' (roman font) is just a synonym for Latin font, Latin alphabet.</ref> Instead, the nomenclature follows German naming patterns: * A roman type is called ''pryamoy shrift'' ("upright type")—compare with ''Normalschrift'' ("regular type") in German * An italic type is called ''kursiv'' ("cursive") or ''kursivniy shrift'' ("cursive type")—from the German word ''Kursive'', meaning italic typefaces and not cursive writing * [[Cursive handwriting]] is ''rukopisniy shrift'' ("hand-written type") in Russian—in German: ''[[:de:Kurrentschrift|Kurrentschrift]]'' or ''Laufschrift'', both meaning literally ‘running type’ Similarly to Latin fonts, italic and cursive types of many Cyrillic letters (typically lowercase; uppercase only for hand-written or stylish types) are very different from their upright roman types. In certain cases, the correspondence between uppercase and lowercase glyphs does not coincide in Latin and Cyrillic fonts: for example, italic Cyrillic ‹<span style="font-family: times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: larger">''т''</span>› is the lowercase counterpart of ‹''Т''› not of ‹''М''›. [[Image:Special Cyrillics.png|thumb|The standard Cyrillic letters compared to the ones used in Serbian and Macedonian, in regular shape and italic/cursive]] As in Latin typography, a [[sans-serif]] face may have a mechanically sloped oblique type (''naklonniy shrift''—"sloped," or "slanted type") instead of italic. A boldfaced type is called ''poluzhirniy shrift'' ("semi-bold type"), because there existed fully boldfaced shapes which are out of use since the beginning of the 20th century. A bold italic combination (bold slanted) does not exist for all font families. In Serbian, as well as in Macedonian and Bulgarian, some italic and cursive letters are different from those used in other languages. These letter shapes are often used in upright fonts as well, especially for advertisements, road signs, inscriptions, posters and the like, less so in newspapers or books. The Cyrillic lowercase ‹б› has a slightly different design both in the roman and italic types, which is similar to the lowercase Greek letter [[Delta (letter)|Delta]], ‹δ›. The following table shows the differences between the upright and italic Cyrillic letters as used in Russian. Italic forms significantly different from their roman analogues, or especially confusing to users of the Latin alphabet, are highlighted. {| border=0 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=1 style="padding:0 .5em .2em; border:1px solid #999; margin:1em 0;" |+ align=bottom style="text-align:left; font-size:smaller; " | Also available as a [[commons:Image:Cyrillic-italics-nonitalics.png|graphical image]]. |- style="font-family:FreeSerif,Georgia,'Times New Roman','Nimbus Roman No9 L','Century Schoolbook L','Trebuchet MS','URW Bookman L','URW Chancery L','URW Palladio L',Arial,Teams,serif; font-size:large; text-align:center; " | а || б || в || г || д || е || ё || ж || з || и || й || к || л || м || н || о || п || р || с || т || у || ф || х || ц || ч || ш || щ || ъ || ы || ь || э || ю || я |- style="font-family:FreeSerif,Georgia,'Times New Roman','Nimbus Roman No9 L','Century Schoolbook L','Trebuchet MS','URW Bookman L','URW Chancery L','URW Palladio L',Arial,Teams,serif; font-size:large; text-align:center; " |{{highlight1}}|''а'' || ''б'' ||{{highlight1}}| ''в'' ||{{highlight1}}| ''г'' ||{{highlight1}}| ''д'' || ''е'' || ''ё'' || ''ж'' || ''з'' ||{{highlight1}}| ''и'' ||{{highlight1}}| ''й'' || ''к'' || ''л'' || ''м'' || ''н'' || ''о'' ||{{highlight1}}| ''п'' || ''р'' || ''с'' ||{{highlight1}}| ''т'' || ''у'' || ''ф'' || ''х'' || ''ц'' || ''ч'' || ''ш'' || ''щ'' || ''ъ'' || ''ы'' || ''ь'' || ''э'' || ''ю'' || ''я'' |} Note: in some fonts or styles lowercase italic Cyrillic ‹д› (‹''д''›) may look like Latin ‹''g''› and lowercase italic Cyrillic ‹т› (‹''т''›) may look exactly like a capital italic ‹T› (‹''T''›), only small. ==As used in various languages== 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.]] Among others, Cyrillic is the standard alphabet for writing the following [[national language]]s: '''Slavic languages''': [[Bulgarian language|Bulgarian]], [[Belarusian language|Belarusian]], [[Bosnian language|Bosnian]], [[Macedonian language|Macedonian]], [[Montenegrin language|Montenegrin]], [[Russian language|Russian]], [[Rusyn language|Rusyn]], [[Serbian language|Serbian]], [[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]].<br> '''Non-Slavic languages''': [[Abkhaz language|Abkhaz]], [[Bashkir language|Bashkir]], [[Kazakh language|Kazakh]], [[Kildin Sami language|Kildin Sami]], [[Komi language|Komi]], [[Kyrgyz language|Kyrgyz]], [[Mari language|Mari]], [[Moldovan language|Moldovan]], [[Mongolian language|Mongolian]], [[Mordvinic languages|Mordvin]], [[Ossetic language|Ossetic]], [[Romani orthography|Romani]] (Some dialects), [[Tajik language|Tajik]], [[Tatar language|Tatar]], [[Tuvan language|Tuvan]], [[Udmurt language|Udmurt]]. The Cyrillic alphabet has also been used in the past for languages of [[Eastern Europe]], the [[Caucasus]], and [[Siberia]]. The first alphabet partly derived from Cyrillic is [[Abur]], applied to the [[Komi language]]. Other writing systems derived from Cyrillic were applied to Caucasian languages and the [[Molodtsov alphabet]] for [[Komi language]]. ==Name== Since the alphabet was conceived and popularised by the followers of [[Cyril and Methodius]], rather than by Cyril and Methodius themselves, its name does not denote authorship, but rather homage. The name "Cyrillic" often confuses people who are not familiar with the alphabet's history, because it does not identify a country of origin (contrast with "Greek alphabet"). Some call it "Russian alphabet" because Russia is the most populous and influential user of the alphabet. Some Bulgarian intellectuals, notably [[Stefan Tsanev]], have expressed concern over this, and have suggested that the Cyrillic alphabet be called "Bulgarian alphabet" instead, for the sake of historical accuracy.<ref>Tsanev, Stefan. ''Български хроники, том 4 (Bulgarian Chronicles, Volume 4)'', Sofia, 2009, p.165</ref> The Cyrillic alphabet is also known as ''azbuka'', derived from the old names of the first two letters of most variant Cyrillic alphabets. ==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.]] 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]]. Cyrillic and [[Glagolitic]] were used for the [[Church Slavonic]] language, especially the [[Old Church Slavonic]] variant. (See [[Early Cyrillic alphabet]].) Hence expressions such as "И is the tenth letter of the Cyrillic alphabet" typically mean the order in Church Slavonic; not every Cyrillic-based language uses every letter of the alphabet. {{Alphabet}} The Cyrillic alphabet came to dominate over Glagolitic in the 12th century. The literature produced in the Old Bulgarian language soon began spreading north and became the [[lingua franca]] of Eastern Europe where it came to also be known as [[Old Church Slavonic]].<ref name="ReferenceA">"On the relationship of old Church Slavonic to the written language of early Rus'" Horace G. Lunt; Russian Linguistics, Volume 11, Numbers 2-3 / January, 1987</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Schenker |first=Alexander |title=The Dawn of Slavic |publisher=Yale University Press |year=1995 |location= |pages=185–186, 189–190 |url= |doi= |id= |isbn=}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Lunt |first=Horace |title=Old Church Slavonic Grammar |publisher=Mouton de Gruyter |pages=3–4 |isbn=}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Wien |first=Lysaght |title=Old Church Slavonic (Old Bulgarian)-Middle Greek-Modern English dictionary |publisher=Verlag Bruder Hollinek |year=1983}}</ref><ref name=fortson>Benjamin W. Fortson. ''Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction'', p. 374</ref> The alphabet used for the modern [[Church Slavonic language]] in [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Eastern Orthodox]] and [[Eastern Catholic]] rites still resembles early Cyrillic. However, over the following ten centuries, the Cyrillic alphabet adapted to changes in spoken language, developed regional variations to suit the features of national languages, and was subjected to academic reforms and political decrees. Today, [[Languages using Cyrillic|dozens of languages]] in Eastern Europe and Asia are written in the Cyrillic alphabet. ==Relationship to other writing systems== ===Latin alphabet=== A number of languages written in the Cyrillic alphabet have also been written in the [[Latin alphabet]], such as [[Serbian language|Serbo-Croatian]], [[Azerbaijani language|Azerbaijani]], [[Uzbek language|Uzbek]] and [[Moldovan language|Moldavian]]. After the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991, official status shifted in some of the former republics from Cyrillic to Latin. The transition is complete in most of Moldova (except [[Transnistria]], where Cyrillic is official) and Azerbaijan, but Uzbekistan still uses both systems. Russia mandated that Cyrillic be used for all public communications to try to bring them closer to Russia's statehood. This act was controversial for speakers of many Slavic languages; with many, such as Chechen and Ingush, the law had political ramifications. For example, the separatist Chechen government mandated a Latin script (which, in fact, is noted by many observers such as [[Johanna Nichols]] to be a much better representation of the language){{Citation needed|date=November 2010}}, and is still used by many Chechens. Those in the diaspora especially refuse to adopt the Cyrillic alphabet, which they associate with Russian imperialism. Serbia uses both the Cyrillic and Latin alphabets, but by Article 10 of the Constitution of the Republic of Serbia, the Cyrillic alphabet was made official.<ref>http://www.srbija.gov.rs/cinjenice_o_srbiji/ustav_odredbe.php?id=217</ref> The [[Zhuang language|Zhuang alphabet]], used between the 1950s and 1980s in portions of the [[People's Republic of China]], used a mixture of Latin, phonetic, numeral-based, and Cyrillic letters. The non-Latin letters, including Cyrillic, were removed from the alphabet in 1982 and replaced with Latin letters that closely resembled the letters they replaced. ===Romanization=== There are various systems for [[Romanization]] of Cyrillic text, including [[transliteration]] to convey Cyrillic spelling in [[Latin]] characters, and [[Transcription (linguistics)|transcription]] to convey [[pronunciation]]. Standard Cyrillic-to-Latin transliteration systems include: *[[Scientific transliteration]], used in linguistics, is based on the Latin [[Czech alphabet]]. *The [http://www.eki.ee/wgrs/ Working Group on Romanization Systems] of the [[United Nations]] recommends different systems for specific languages. These are the most commonly used around the world. *[[ISO 9]]:1995, from the International Organization for Standardization. *American Library Association and Library of Congress Romanization tables for Slavic alphabets ([[ALA-LC Romanization]]), used in North American libraries. *[[BGN/PCGN Romanization]] (1947), United States Board on Geographic Names & Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for British Official Use). *[[GOST 16876-71|GOST 16876]], a now defunct Soviet transliteration standard. Replaced by GOST 7.79, which is [[ISO 9]] equivalent. *[[Volapuk encoding]], an informal rendering of Cyrillic text over Latin-alphabet ASCII. See also [[Romanization of Belarusian]], [[romanization of Bulgarian|Bulgarian]], [[romanization of Kyrgyz|Kyrgyz]], [[romanization of Russian|Russian]], [[romanization of Macedonian|Macedonian]] and [[romanization of Ukrainian|Ukrainian]]. ===Cyrillization=== Representing other writing systems with Cyrillic letters is called [[Cyrillization]]. ==Computer encoding== ===Unicode=== {{Further|[[Cyrillic (Unicode block)]]}} In [[Unicode]] 5.1, letters of the Cyrillic alphabet, including national and historical varieties, are represented by four blocks: * Cyrillic 0400–04FF * Cyrillic Supplement 0500–052F * Cyrillic Extended-A 2DE0–2DFF * Cyrillic Extended-B A640–A69F. The characters in the range U+0400 to U+045F are basically the characters from [[ISO 8859-5]] moved upward by 864 positions. The characters in the range U+0460 to U+0489 are historic letters, not used now. The characters in the range U+048A to U+052F are additional letters for various languages that are written with Cyrillic script. [[Unicode]] as a general rule does not include accented Cyrillic letters. Few exceptions are: * combinations that are considered as separate letters of respective alphabets, like [[Й]], [[Ў]], [[Ё]], [[Ї]], [[Ѓ]], [[Ќ]] (as well as many letters of non-slavic alphabets); * two most frequent combinations orthographically required to distinguish [[homonym]]s in Bulgarian and Macedonian: [[Ѐ]], [[Ѝ]]; * few Old and New Church Slavonic combinations: [[Ѷ]], [[Ѿ]], [[Ѽ]]. To indicate stressed or long vowels, [[combining diacritical mark]]s can be used after respective letter (for example, "combining acute accent" U+0301: ы́ э́ ю́ я́ etc.). Some languages, including [[Church Slavonic language|Church Slavonic]], are still not fully supported. Unicode 5.1, released on 4 April 2008, introduces major changes to the Cyrillic blocks. Revisions to the existing Cyrillic blocks, and the addition of Cyrillic Extended A (2DE0...2DFF) and Cyrillic Extended B (A640...A69F), significantly improve support for the [[early Cyrillic alphabet]], [[Abkhaz language|Abkhaz]], [[Aleut]], [[Chuvash language|Chuvash]], [[Kurdish language|Kurdish]], and [[Mordvin]].<ref>[http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3194.pdf n3194r-cyrillic<!--Bot-generated title-->]</ref> ===Other=== Punctuation for Cyrillic text is similar to that used in European Latin-alphabet languages. Other [[character encoding]] systems for Cyrillic: *[[CP866]] – 8-bit Cyrillic character encoding established by [[Microsoft]] for use in [[MS-DOS]] also known as GOST-alternative. Cyrillic characters go in their native order, with a "window" for pseudographic characters. *[[ISO/IEC 8859-5]] – 8-bit Cyrillic character encoding established by [[International Organization for Standardization]] *[[KOI8-R]] – 8-bit native Russian character encoding. Invented in the USSR for use on Soviet clones of American IBM and DEC computers. The Cyrillic characters go in the order of their Latin counterparts, which allowed the text to remain readable after transmission via a 7bit line which removed the senior bit from each byte - the result became a very rough, but readable, Latin transliteration of Cyrillic. Standard encoding of early 90s for UNIX systems and the first Russian Internet encoding. *[[KOI8-U]] – KOI8-R with addition of Ukrainian letters *[[MIK Code page|MIK]] – 8-bit native Bulgarian character encoding for use in [[DOS]] *[[Windows-1251]] – 8-bit Cyrillic character encoding established by Microsoft for use in [[Microsoft Windows]]. The simplest 8bit Cyrillic encoding - 32 capital chars in native order at 0xc0-0xdf, 32 usual chars at 0xe0-0xff, with rarely used "YO" characters somewhere else. No pseudographics. Former standard encoding in some [[Linux]] distributions for Belarusian and Bulgarian, but currently displaced by [[UTF-8]]. *[[GOST-main]] *[[GB 2312]] - Principally simplified Chinese encodings, but there are also basic 33 Russian Cyrillic letters (in upper- and lower-case). *[[JIS encoding|JIS]] and [[Shift JIS]] - Principally Japanese encodings, but there are also basic 33 Russian Cyrillic letters (in upper- and lower-case). ===Keyboard layouts=== Each language has its own standard [[keyboard layout]], adopted from [[typewriter]]s. With the flexibility of computer input methods, there are also transliterating or phonetic/homophonic<ref>http://Phonetic.WinRus.com</ref> keyboard layouts made for typists who are more familiar with other layouts, like the common English [[qwerty keyboard]]. When practical Cyrillic keyboard layouts or fonts are not available, computer users sometimes use transliteration or look-alike "[[volapuk encoding|volapuk]]" encoding to type languages which are normally written with the Cyrillic alphabet. See [[Keyboard layout#Keyboard layouts for non-Roman alphabetic scripts|Keyboard layouts for non-Roman alphabetic scripts]]. ==See also== *[[.рф]] *[[wiktionary:Appendix:Cyrillic script|Appendix of Cyrillic alphabets]] *[[Languages using Cyrillic]] *[[List of Cyrillic letters]] *[[Cyrillic digraphs]] *[[List of Cyrillic digraphs]] *[[Faux Cyrillic]], real or fake Cyrillic letters used to give Latin-alphabet text a Soviet or Russian feel *[[Russian Manual Alphabet]] (the [[fingerspelling|fingerspelled]] Cyrillic alphabet) *[[Cyrillic Alphabet Day]] *[[Vladislav the Grammarian]] *[[Russian cursive]] *[[Cyrillic (Unicode block)]] ==References== *[[Robert Bringhurst|Bringhurst, Robert]] (2002). ''[[The Elements of Typographic Style]]'' (version 2.5), pp.&nbsp;262–264. Vancouver, Hartley & Marks. ISBN 0-88179-133-4. *Nezirović, M. (1992). ''Jevrejsko-španjolska književnost''. Sarajevo: Svjetlost. [cited in Šmid, 2002] *Šmid, Katja (2002). "{{PDFlink|[http://hispanismo.cervantes.es/documentos/smidX.pdf Los problemas del estudio de la lengua sefardí]|603 [[Kibibyte|KiB]]}}", in ''Verba Hispanica'', vol X. Liubliana: Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Liubliana. ISSN 0353-9660. {{Reflist}} ==External links== {{Wiktionary|Cyrillic alphabet}} *[http://code.google.com/p/cyrillic/ Cyrillic Character Transliteration free software] *[http://usefulwebtool.com/en/characters_cyrillic.php Cyrillic characters and HTML entities] *[http://www.russianforeveryone.com/RufeA/Lessons/Introduction/Alphabet/Alphabet.htm Russian Alphabet with sound and animated handwriting] of letters and words. *[http://www.languagehelpers.com/Russian/TheRussianAlphabet.html Sounds of the Russian alphabet], Listen to how the alphabet sounds and download the audio to your desktop *[http://learn-russian.language101.com/lesson/?id=30078025 Russian alphabet audio], Hear the Russian alphabet both at normal speed and slowly, five letters at a time. *[http://www.peoples.org.ru/eng_index.html Minority Languages of Russia on the Net], a list of resources. *[http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/translit.htm Information on Cyrillic alphabet] and the handwritten script form of Cyrillic. *[http://WinRus.com/ Using Cyrillic (Russian) under non-Russian MS Windows and on the Web] - fonts, keyboard layouts, applications tune-up *[http://alternative-x.com/vsostanalo.htm Old Cyrillic Keyboard Layout], Old Bulgarian Cyrillic, it includes the characters Ѫ and Ѣ *[http://www.terena.nl/library/multiling/euroml/mlcs5-cyr.txt A Survey of the Use of Modern Cyrillic Script], including the complete required repertoire of graphic characters, by J. W. van Wingen. *[http://www.tipometar.org/ Tipometar: Serbian Cyrillic typography and typefaces] *[http://czyborra.com/charsets/cyrillic.html The Cyrillic Charset Soup], Roman Czyborra’s overview and history of Cyrillic charsets. *{{PDFlink|[http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0400.pdf Unicode Code Charts "Cyrillic"]|174&nbsp;KB}} *{{PDFlink|[http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0500.pdf Unicode Code Charts "Cyrillic Supplement"]|69.8&nbsp;KB}} *[http://transliteration.eki.ee/ Transliteration of Non-Roman Scripts], a collection of writing systems and transliteration tables, by Thomas T. Pedersen. Includes PDF reference charts for many languages' transliteration systems. *[http://porusski.net Modern (not mouse-only) Virtual Real-time Russian Keyboard] *[http://www.rusklaviatura.com Rusklaviatura: Real-time Cyrillic Converter] *[http://www.transliteration.kpr.eu/uz/ Uzbek Cyrillic - Latin converter] *[http://www.softcorporation.com/products/cyrillic/ Russian Keyboard (Cyrillic Virtual Keyboard) with Russian Spell Checking.] *[http://www.allvirtualware.com/rusoft/russian_keyboard_fonts.htm RuWriter, a Russian Phonetic Keyboard Driver for Windows 7, Vista, and XP.] *[http://www.omniglot.com/writing/cyrillic.htm History and development of the Cyrillic alphabet] *[http://www.ancientscripts.com/cyrillic.html Ancient Scripts: Cyrillic] {| border=0 cellpadding=5 cellspacing=0 valign=top class=Unicode style="border-collapse:collapse;border:1px solid #999;text-align:center;clear:both" |- ! colspan=11 style="font-family:inherit; font-weight:normal;" | Letters of the Cyrillic alphabet (see also [[Cyrillic digraphs]]) |- valign=top bgcolor=#f8f8f8 | width=7% | [[A (Cyrillic)|<big>А</big><br /><small>A</small>]] | width=7% | [[Be (Cyrillic)|<big>Б</big><br /><small>Be</small>]] | width=7% | [[Ve (Cyrillic)|<big>В</big><br /><small>Ve</small>]] | width=7% | [[Ge (Cyrillic)|<big>Г</big><br /><small>Ge</small>]] | width=7% | [[Ge with upturn|<big>Ґ</big><br /><small>Ge upturn</small>]] | width=7% | [[De (Cyrillic)|<big>Д</big><br /><small>De</small>]] | width=7% | [[Dje|<big>Ђ</big><br /><small>Dje</small>]] | width=7% | [[Gje|<big>Ѓ</big><br /><small>Gje</small>]] | width=7% | [[Ye (Cyrillic)|<big>Е</big><br /><small>Ye</small>]] | width=7% | [[Yo (Cyrillic)|<big>Ё</big><br /><small>Yo</small>]] | width=7% | [[Ukrainian Ye|<big>Є</big><br /><small>Ye</small>]] |- valign=top | [[Zhe (Cyrillic)|<big>Ж</big><br /><small>Zhe</small>]] | [[Ze (Cyrillic)|<big>З</big><br /><small>Ze</small>]] | [[Dze|<big>Ѕ</big><br /><small>Dze</small>]] | [[I (Cyrillic)|<big>И</big><br /><small>I</small>]] | [[Decimal I|<big>І</big><br /><small>Dotted I</small>]] | [[Yi (Cyrillic)|<big>Ї</big><br /><small>Yi</small>]] | [[Short I|<big>Й</big><br /><small>Short I</small>]] | [[Je (Cyrillic)|<big>Ј</big><br /><small>Je</small>]] | [[Ka (Cyrillic)|<big>К</big><br /><small>Ka</small>]] | [[El (Cyrillic)|<big>Л</big><br /><small>El</small>]] | [[Lje|<big>Љ</big><br /><small>Lje</small>]] |- valign=top bgcolor=#f8f8f8 | [[Em (Cyrillic)|<big>М</big><br /><small>Em</small>]] | [[En (Cyrillic)|<big>Н</big><br /><small>En</small>]] | [[Nje|<big>Њ</big><br /><small>Nje</small>]] | [[O (Cyrillic)|<big>О</big><br /><small>O</small>]] | [[Pe (Cyrillic)|<big>П</big><br /><small>Pe</small>]] | [[Er (Cyrillic)|<big>Р</big><br /><small>Er</small>]] | [[Es (Cyrillic)|<big>С</big><br /><small>Es</small>]] | [[Te (Cyrillic)|<big>Т</big><br /><small>Te</small>]] | [[Tshe|<big>Ћ</big><br /><small>Tshe</small>]] | [[Kje|<big>Ќ</big><br /><small>Kje</small>]] | [[U (Cyrillic)|<big>У</big><br /><small>U</small>]] |- valign=top | [[U short|<big>Ў</big><br /><small>Short U</small>]] | [[Ef (Cyrillic)|<big>Ф</big><br /><small>Ef</small>]] | [[Kha (Cyrillic)|<big>Х</big><br /><small>Kha</small>]] | [[Tse (Cyrillic)|<big>Ц</big><br /><small>Tse</small>]] | [[Che (Cyrillic)|<big>Ч</big><br /><small>Che</small>]] | [[Dzhe|<big>Џ</big><br /><small>Dzhe</small>]] | [[Sha|<big>Ш</big><br /><small>Sha</small>]] | [[Shcha|<big>Щ</big><br /><small>Shcha</small>]] | [[Yer|<big>Ъ</big><br /><small>Hard&nbsp;sign (Yer)</small>]] | [[Yery|<big>Ы</big><br /><small>Yery</small>]] | [[Soft sign|<big>Ь</big><br /><small>Soft&nbsp;sign (Yeri)</small>]] |- valign=top bgcolor=#f8f8f8 | | | | | [[E (Cyrillic)|<big>Э</big><br /><small>E</small>]] | [[Yu (Cyrillic)|<big>Ю</big><br /><small>Yu</small>]] | [[Ya (Cyrillic)|<big>Я</big><br /><small>Ya</small>]] | | | | |-valign=top | colspan=11 style="font-family:inherit; font-weight:normal;" | Cyrillic non-slavic letters |- valign=top bgcolor=#f8f8f8 | [[Palochka|<big>Ӏ</big><br /><small>Palochka</small>]] | [[Schwa (Cyrillic)|<big>Ә</big><br /><small>Cyrillic Schwa</small>]] | [[Ghayn|<big>Ғ</big><br /><small>Ayn</small>]] | [[Dhe (Cyrillic)|<big>Ҙ</big><br /><small>Bashkir Dhe</small>]] | [[The (Cyrillic)|<big>Ҫ</big><br /><small>Bashkir The</small>]] | [[Bashkir Qa|<big>Ҡ</big><br /><small>Bashkir Qa</small>]] | [[Qaf (Cyrillic)|<big>Қ</big><br /><small>Qaf</small>]] | [[Ng (Cyrillic)|<big>Ң</big><br /><small>Ng</small>]] | [[Oe (Cyrillic)|<big>Ө</big><br /><small>Barred O</small>]] | [[Ue (Cyrillic)|<big>Ү</big><br /><small>Straight U</small>]] | [[Kazakh Short U|<big>Ұ</big><br /><small>Straight U<br/>with stroke</small>]] | [[Shha (Cyrillic)|<big>Һ</big><br /><small>He</small>]] |-valign=top | colspan=11 style="font-family:inherit; font-weight:normal;" | Cyrillic archaic letters |- valign=top bgcolor=#f8f8f8 | [[A iotified|<big>Ꙗ</big><br /><small>A&nbsp;iotified</small>]] | [[E iotified|<big>Ѥ</big><br /><small>E&nbsp;iotified</small>]] | [[Yus|<big>Ѧ</big><br /><small>Yus&nbsp;small</small>]] | [[Yus|<big>Ѫ</big><br /><small>Yus&nbsp;big</small>]] | [[Yus|<big>Ѩ</big><br /><small>Yus&nbsp;small iotified</small>]] | [[Yus|<big>Ѭ</big><br /><small>Yus&nbsp;big iotified</small>]] | [[Ksi (Cyrillic)|<big>Ѯ</big><br /><small>Ksi</small>]] | [[Psi (Cyrillic)|<big>Ѱ</big><br /><small>Psi</small>]] | [[Fita|<big>Ѳ</big><br /><small>Fita</small>]] | [[Izhitsa|<big>Ѵ</big><br /><small>Izhitsa</small>]] | [[Izhitsa okovy|<big>Ѷ</big><br /><small>Izhitsa okovy</small>]] |-valign=top | | | | [[Koppa (Cyrillic)|<big>Ҁ</big><br /><small>Koppa</small>]] | [[Uk (Cyrillic)|<big>Ѹ</big><br /><small>Uk</small>]] | [[Omega (Cyrillic)|<big>Ѡ</big><br /><small>Omega</small>]] | [[Ot (Cyrillic)|<big>Ѿ</big><br /><small>Ot</small>]] | [[Yat|<big>Ѣ</big><br /><small>Yat</small>]] | | | |} {{List of writing systems}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2010}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Cyrillic Alphabet}} [[Category:Cyrillic alphabet| ]] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_alphabet

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