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Cyrillic alphabetAlphabet used for Russian, Serbian (see Serbo-Croatian language), Bulgarian and Macedonian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, and many non-Slavic languages of the former Soviet Union, as well as Khalka Mongolian (see Mongolian language). The history of the Cyrillic alphabet is complex and much disputed. It is clearly derived from 9th-century Greek uncial capital letters, with the non-Greek letters probably taken from the Glagolitic alphabet, a highly original alphabet in which (along with Cyrillic) Old Church Slavonic was written. A commonly held hypothesis is that followers of Sts. Cyril and Methodius developed Cyrillic in the southern Balkans around the end of the 9th century. The 44 original Cyrillic letters were reduced in number in most later alphabets used for vernacular languages, and some wholly original letters introduced, particularly for non-Slavic languages. Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | the sum of the number of Cyrillic letters in these numbers' names) is 16 in any row, column, or diagonal. Dotting the rest of the gallery were blocky bookshelves filled with books pieced together from fabric and cardboard, decorated, more often than not, in shades of red, pink, and black, and marked with vaguely Russian Constructivist--looking elements and Cyrillic letters on the spines. The Supplicant touched me on the forehead, inside of which my halo was sketched in white, police chalk & the animal of my body woke into its saline drift by the sea: eggshell skull, stamped with blue, Cyrillic letters of difficult breathing: the waves, breaking open their circuitry at whisper level until the Sunrise Engine be enriched with yellowcake silence & we waded into the surf . |
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