Appendix:Old Cyrillic script

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This is the Cyrillic alphabet, as used in Old Church Slavonic and other Slavic languages before the eighteenth century. Sound is transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet. Transliteration method is the scholarly system used in linguistics.

Note: some characters may not display without a suitable Unicode 5.1 font. Some fonts can be downloaded from:

Resources at Obshtezhitie (Dilyana v 2.001, Lazov v 1.00, Menaion Medieval v 2.10)
Code2000 version 1.17
BukyVede version 1.002
Kliment Std version 3.00
RomanCyrillic Std version 3.00
DejaVu Sans 2.26 has 24 characters from Cyrillic Extended-B. The development versions of DejaVu Sans and DejaVu Serif support more characters
GNU Unifont 2008-05-10 (bitmap glyphs only)

Old Cyrillic alphabet (ISO 15924 code `Cyrs`)
Letter	Name	Num. value	Sound	Translit.
а	азъ	1	[a]	a
б	боукы (бѹкы)	–	[b]	b
в	вѣди/вѣдѣ	2	[v]	v
г	глаголи/глаголъ	3	[g]	g
д	добро	4	[d]	d
є	ѥсть/єстъ	5	[ɛ]	e
ж	живѣтє	–	[ʒʲ]	ž
ѕ	ѕѣло/зѣло	6	[dzʲ/zʲ]	dz
ꙁ/з	зємлꙗ	7	[z]	z
и	и/ижєи	8	[i]	i
і/ї	ижє	10	[i]	i
ћ	ћєрвь/дєрвь	–	[gʲ/dʲ/j]	ǵ
к	како	20	[k]	k
л	людьѥ/людиѥ	30	[l]	l
м	мꙑслитє (мыслитє)/мꙑслѣтє (мыслѣтє)	40	[m]	m
н	нашь	50	[n]	n
о	онъ	70	[ɔ]	o
п	покои	80	[p]	p
р	рьци	100	[r]	r
с	слово	200	[s]	s
т	тврьдо/тврдо/твєрдо	300	[t]	t
оу/ꙋ	оукъ (ѹкъ)/икъ	400	[u]	u
ф	фьртъ/фртъ	500	[f]	f
х	хѣръ/хєрь	600	[χ]	x
ѡ/ѿ	ѡтъ	800	[ɔ]	o (ô)
ц	ци	900	[tsʲ]	c
ч	чрьвь	90	[t͡ʃʲ]	č
ш	ша	–	[ʃʲ]	š
щ	ща/шта	–	[ʃʲtʲ]	št
ъ	ѥръ	–	[ŭ/ə]	ŭ (ъ, ”)
ꙑ (ы)/ъи	ѥрꙑ (ѥры)	–	[ɨ]	y
ь	ѥрь	–	[ĭ]	ǐ (ь, ’)
ѣ	ѣть (ять)	–	[æ/e]	ě
ю	ю	–	[ju]	ju
ꙗ (я)	ꙗ (я)/иꙗ (ия)	–	[ja]	ja
ѥ	ѥ/иѥ	–	[jɛ]	je
ѧ	ѧсъ (юсъ малыи)	900	[ɛ̃]	ę
ѩ	ѩсъ (юсъ малыи иотірованныи)	–	[jɛ̃]	ję
ѫ	ѫсъ (юсъ большии)	–	[ɔ̃]	ǫ
ѭ	ѭсъ (юсъ больший иотірованныи)	–	[jɔ̃]	jǫ
ѯ	кси	60	[ks]	ks
ѱ	пси	700	[ps]	ps
ѳ	ѳита	9	[f]	θ (th, ḟ)
ѵ	ижица	400	[i/v]	ü (ẏ)
Ѽ		–		O!

Peter T. Daniels and William Bright, eds. (1996). The World's Writing Systems. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-507993-0.