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	Cyrillic alphabet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The plan of the alphabet is derived from the early Cyrillic alphabet, itself a derivative of the Glagolitic alphabet, a ninth century uncial cursive usually credited to two brothers from Thessaloniki, Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius.
		The alphabet was disseminated along with the Old Church Slavonic liturgical language, and the alphabet used for modern Church Slavonic language in Eastern Orthodox rites still resembles early Cyrillic.
		Cyrillic uppercase and lowercase letter-forms are not as differentiated as in Latin typography.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cyrillic_alphabet (2873 words)

	Cyrillic alphabet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The plan of the alphabet is derived from the early Cyrillic alphabet, itself a derivative of the Glagolitic alphabet, a 9th century uncial cursive usually credited to two brothers, Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius.
		The theory is further supported by the fact that the Cyrillic alphabet replaced almost completely the Glagolitic one in northeastern Bulgaria as early as the end of the 10th century, whereas the Ohrid Literary School—where Saint Clement worked—continued to use the Glagolitic alphabet until the 12th century.
		Cyrillic upper- and lowercase letter-forms are not as differentiated as in Latin typography.
	www.secaucus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Cyrillic_alphabet (2649 words)

	Encyclopedia: Cyrillic alphabet
		The plan of the alphabet is derived from the early Cyrillic alphabet, itself a derivative of the Glagolitic alphabet, a 9th century uncial cursive usually credited to two brothers from Thessaloniki, Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius.
		Though the alphabet is usually attributed to Saint Clement of Ohrid, a Bulgarian scholar and disciple of Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius, the alphabet is more likely to have developed at the Preslav Literary School in northeastern Bulgaria, where the oldest Cyrillic inscriptions (dating back to the 940s) have been found.
		Although Cyril is almost certainly not the author of the Cyrillic alphabet, his contributions to Glagolitic alphabet and hence to the Cyrillic alphabet are still recognised, as the latter is named after him.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Cyrillic-alphabet (8312 words)

	ninemsn Encarta - Alphabet
		Alphabet (from alpha and beta, the first two letters of the Greek alphabet), set of written symbols, each representing a given sound or sounds, which can be variously combined to form all the words of a language.
		An alphabet attempts ideally to indicate each separate sound by a separate symbol, although this end is seldom attained, except in the Korean alphabet (the most perfect phonetic system known) and, to a lesser degree, in the Japanese syllabaries.
		Early systems of writing were of the pictographic-ideographic variety; among them are the cuneiform of the ancient Babylonians and Assyrians, Egyptian hieroglyphs, the written symbols still used in the Chinese and Japanese languages, and Mayan picture writing (see Native American Languages).
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	Cyrillic alphabet
		The Cyrillic alphabet is an alphabet used to write six natural Slavic languages (Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Serbian, Macedonian, and Bulgarian) and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe.
		The plan of the alphabet is derived from the Early Cyrillic alphabet, itself a derivative of the Glagolitic alphabet, a 9th century uncial cursive usually credited to two brothers, Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius.
		Cyril's contributions to the Glagolitic alphabet and hence to the Cyrillic alphabet are still recognised, as the latter is named after him.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/c/cy/cyrillic_alphabet.html (1150 words)

	Early Cyrillic alphabet
		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.
		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 Alphabet descriptions.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/e/ea/early_cyrillic_alphabet.html (198 words)

	Face of Russia: Cyrillic Alphabet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Cyrillic Alphabet was named for St. Cyril, although there is some dispute as to whether this is the alphabet he invented or not.
		Cyril was a Greek monk who, with Methodius, brought written language to Christian converts in the mid-9th century (c.860) in what is now Russia.
		In Russia, Cyrillic was first written in the early Middle Ages in clear-cut, legible ustav (large letters).
	www.pbs.org /weta/faceofrussia/reference/cyrillic.html (147 words)

	MSN Encarta - Print Preview - Alphabet
		The earliest known example of the Roman alphabet is an inscription on a gold brooch from the 6th century bc.
		Because of Roman conquests and the spread of the Latin language, the Roman alphabet became the basic alphabet of all the languages of western Europe.
		The Cyrillic alphabet, in various forms, is used currently in Russian, Ukrainian, Byelorussian, Serbian, Bulgarian, and Macedonian—languages spoken by Eastern Orthodox Christians.
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	Old Church Slavonic Online
		Cyril is generally acknowledged as the primary force behind the effort of translation, and St. Methodius is thought to have finished what was left undone by his brother.
		The majority of scholars, however, are of the opinion that Glagolitic was the one devised by Cyril in his early missionary work, a conclusion based in large part on the fact that, of the extant OCS manuscripts, the oldest are written in the Glagolitic script.
		The Cyrillic alphabet is similar to the Greek alphabet from which it is derived.
	www.utexas.edu /cola/depts/lrc/eieol/ocsol-1.html (3191 words)

	Hebrew alphabet -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Early Hebrew was the alphabet used by the Jewish nation in the period before the Babylonian Exile—i.e., prior to the 6th century BC—although some inscriptions in this alphabet may be of a later date.
		Derived from the North Semitic script, the Aramaic alphabet was developed in the 10th and 9th centuries BC and came into prominence after the conquest of the Aramaean states by Assyria in the 9th and 8th centuries BC.
		It was used in Syria as early as the 11th century BC and is probably ancestral, either directly or indirectly, to all subsequent alphabetic scripts, with the possible exception of those scripts classified as South Semitic (e.g., Ethiopic, Sabaean).
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9039759?tocId=9039759 (826 words)

	Keyboard Stickers - Russian, Arabic/Farsi, Hebrew, Cyrillic, Greek
		Cyrillic alphabet is used to write six natural Slavic languages (Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Serbian, Macedonian, and Bulgarian) and many other languages of the former USSR, Asia and Eastern Europe.
		The alphabet structure is based on the Early Cyrillic alphabet, that was inherited from the Glagolitic alphabet, an uncial cursive designed by brothers Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius in mid 9th century.
		Cyrillic alphabet experienced additions of the entirely new letter shapes in contrast of Latin alphabet where existing letters used accents, tildes, umlauts, and cedillas.
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	Cyrillic alphabet - Freepedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Cyrillic alphabet is an alphabet used to write six natural Slavic languages (Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Serbian, Macedonian, and Bulgarian) and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe.
		But the shapes of the glyphs in the Cyrillic alphabet are mainly Greek letters, although some letters retain their Glagolitic forms.
		Cyril's contributions to the Glagolitic alphabet and hence to the Cyrillic alphabet are still recognised, as the latter is named after him.
	en.freepedia.org /Cyr.html (1147 words)

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		Upper- and lowercase letter-forms are not as differentiated as in Latin typography.
		Cyrillic lowercase letters are essentially small capitals (although a good type face may still include separate small-caps font).
		Unlike the Latin alphabet, which is usually adapted to different languages using additions to existing letters such as accents, umlauts, tildes and cedillas, the Cyrillic alphabet is usually adapted by the creation of entirely new letter shapes.
	www.hostingciamca.com /index.php?title=Cyrillic_alphabet (2117 words)

	AncientScripts.com: Greek
		From the shape of the letters, it is clear that the Greeks adopted the alphabet the Phoenician script, mostly like during the late 9th century BCE.
		Eventually the Ionian alphabet was adopted in all Greek-speaking states, but before that happened, the Euboean variant was carried to the Italic peninsula and adopted by Etruscan and eventually the Romans.
		Between 1500 and 1200 BCE, the Mycenaeans, an early tribe of Greeks, has adapted the Minoan syllabary as Linear B to write an early form of Greek.
	www.ancientscripts.com /greek.html (469 words)

	Cyrillic Alphabet
		The layout of the alphabet is derived from the early Cyrillic alphabet, itself a derivative of the Glagolitic alphabet (is the oldest known Slavic alphabet), a ninth century uncial cursive usually credited to two Byzantine monk brothers from Thessaloniki, Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius.
		The theory is supported by the fact that the Cyrillic alphabet almost completely replaced the Glagolitic in northeastern Bulgaria as early as the end of the tenth century, whereas the Ohrid Literary School—where Saint Clement worked—continued to use the Glagolitic until the twelfth century.
		Although Cyril is almost certainly not the author of the Cyrillic alphabet, his contributions to the Glagolitic and hence to the Cyrillic alphabet are still recognised, as the latter is named after him.
	www.tandem-travel.com /interesting-facts/cyrillic-alphabet.php (706 words)

	Wiktionary:Romanian language - Wiktionary
		It is written using the Cyrillic alphabet, like all early Romanian writings (because the usual language for religious services was old Slavonian).
		The Romanian alphabet is based on the Latin alphabet, and has five additional letters (these are not diacriticals, but letters in their own right).
		Today, the Romanian alphabet is largely phonetic, with one exception: the "andacirc" (used inside the words) and "andicirc" (used at the beginning or the end), both representing the same sound.
	en.wiktionary.org /wiki/Romanian_language (747 words)

	BOSNIAN CYRILLIC FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It is hard to ascertain when features of characteristically Bosnian type of Cyrillic had begun to appear, but paleographers consider that the Humac_tablet from 11th century (supposedly) is the first document of this type of script.
		This is by far the most abundant corpus of works written in Bosnian Cyrillic, covering various genres, but belonging to the liturgical literature: numerous polemical tractates in the spirit of Counter-Reformation, popular tales from the Bible, catechisms, breviaries, historical chronicles, local church histories, religious poetry and didactic works.
		This extinct form of Cyrillic is peripheral to Croatian paleography which focuses on Glagolitic and Latin script corpora while Bosniaks, although paying lip service to Bosnian Cyrillic heritage, have been focusing efforts on their vernacular literature in modified Arabic script.
	www.witwib.com /Bosnian_Cyrillic (1019 words)

	MSN Encarta - Alphabet
		Introduction; Before the Alphabet; The Earliest Alphabets; Alphabets for Unwritten Languages; The Changing Alphabet; Adoption of New Alphabets
		After Constantine died he was canonized as Saint Cyril, and Glagolitic was later replaced by an alphabet that was closely based on Greek and named Cyrillic in his honor (see Cyrillic Alphabet).
		One of the most important Indian alphabets, the Devanagari alphabet used in the Sanskrit language, is an ingenious combination of syllabic and true alphabetic principles (see Indian Languages).
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	Alphabet Transitions: Chronology of the New Latin Script
		Alphabet changes are not new to Azerbaijan; this was the fourth time this century it had been changed.
		In 1928, a committee known as "Yeni Alif" (New Alphabet) was established in Moscow to deal with alphabet issues, and that same year, Latin was adopted for all the Turkic people of the USSR (Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrghyzstan and Uzbekistan).
		In addition to Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic, even Old Runic (an alphabet of the 7th and 8th century) was discussed as a possibility, Latin, however, generated the most interest.
	www.azeri.org /Azeri/az_english/52_folder/52_articles/52_alphabet.html (1819 words)

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		The Cyrillic alphabet is named after St. Cyril, a missionary from Byzantium.
		Cyrillic Support 2000 - A complete set of fonts and software for using Cyrillic in all your...
		The Cyrillic alphabet (or azbuka, from the old name of the first letters) is an...
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	Arabic_alphabet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Because the Qur'an, the holy book of Islam, is written with this alphabet, its influence spread with that of Islam and it has been, and still is, used to write many other languages from families unrelated to the Semitic languages, such as Persian and Urdu.
		The Arabic alphabet can be traced back to the Nabatean alphabet used to write the Nabataean dialect of Aramaic, itself descended from Phoenician (which, among others, gave rise to the Greek alphabet and, thence, to Etruscan and Latin letters.).
		The first known text in the Arabic alphabet is a late fourth-century inscription from Jabal Ramm (50 km east of Aqaba), but the first dated one is a trilingual inscription at Zebed in Syria from 512.
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		Cyrillic is one of two ancient Slavic alphabets that were invented, according to manuscripts, by St.
		Many symbols of the alphabet were added in vain, for there were no sounds for them in Slavic.
		The Cyrillic alphabet appears difficult to get the hang of at first, but in the case of Bulgarian it is almost
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	JAARS Museum of the Alphabet: Site Map (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Individual galleries may be selected directly from the map or text links on the
		Alphabet Makers: Blue arrows view the alphabet makers, key people in the history of writing.
		Individual people may be selected directly from the text links on the People page.
	www.jaars.org /museum/alphabet/sitemap.htm (121 words)

	Cyrillic alphabet -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Glagolitic script was used by Roman Catholic Slavs, while the Cyrillic alphabet was used by Eastern Orthodox Slavs; and although the origin of Glagolitic is not clear, it is probably closely related to the Cyrillic...
		All of the alphabets in use in European languages today are directly or indirectly related to the Greek.
		The Cyrillic alphabet is a writing system developed during the 10th century for Slavic-speaking people who belonged to the Eastern Orthodox church.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9028431?tocId=9028431 (806 words)

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