The first few of these alphabets were developed by Orthodox missionaries for the Finnic and Turkic peoples of Idel-Ural ( Mari, Udmurt, Mordva, Chuvash, and Kerashen Tatars) in the 1870s. Non-Slavic alphabets are generally modelled after Russian, but often bear striking differences, particularly when adapted for Caucasian languages. However, in some alphabets invented in the 19th century, such as Mari, Udmurt and Chuvash, umlauts and breves also were used.īulgarian and Bosnian Sephardim without Hebrew typefaces occasionally printed Judeo-Spanish in Cyrillic. , whose original value in Latin was /k/, represents /ts/ in West Slavic languages, /ʕ/ in Somali, /t͡ʃ/ in many African languages and /d͡ʒ/ in Turkish), or by the use of digraphs (such as, , and ), the Cyrillic script is usually adapted by the creation of entirely new letter shapes. Unlike the Latin script, which is usually adapted to different languages by adding diacritical marks/supplementary glyphs (such as accents, umlauts, fadas, tildes and cedillas) to standard Roman letters, by assigning new phonetic values to existing letters ( e.g. Spellings of names transliterated into the Roman alphabet may vary, especially й ( y/ j/ i), but also г ( gh/ g/ h) and ж ( zh/ j). его yego 'him/his', is pronounced rather than ). While these languages largely have phonemic orthographies, there are occasional exceptions-for example, Russian ⟨г⟩ is pronounced /v/ in a number of words, an orthographic relic from when they were pronounced /ɡ/ (e.g. Some of these are illustrated below for others, and for more detail, see the links. Cyrillic is one of the most-used writing systems in the world and its origin is Bulgaria. As of 2011, around 252 million people in Eurasia use it as the official alphabet for their national languages.

It is the basis of alphabets used in various languages, past and present, Slavic origin, and non-Slavic languages influenced by Russian. The early Cyrillic alphabet was developed in the 9th century AD and replaced the earlier Glagolitic script developed by the Byzantine theologians Cyril and Methodius. Numerous Cyrillic alphabets are based on the Cyrillic script.

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