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Cyrillic script

Also known as cyrl, Kiril, Cyrillic, Cyrillic alphabet

writing system developed in Bulgaria and used for various oriental Eurasian languages

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Cyrillic script is a writing system that was developed in Bulgaria and is used to write various languages spoken across eastern Eurasian regions. It remains important today because it enables communication and literacy for millions of people whose native languages rely on this alphabet.

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Encyclopedic overview

The Cyrillic script (/sɪˈrɪlɪk/ sih-RI-lik) is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic, Turkic, Mongolic, Uralic, Caucasian and Iranic-speaking countries in Southeastern Europe, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, North Asia, and East Asia, and used by many other minority languages.

As of 2019, around 250 million people in Eurasia use Cyrillic as the official script for their national languages, with Russia accounting for about half of them. With the accession of Bulgaria to the European Union in 2007, Cyrillic became the third official script of the European Union, following the Latin and Greek alphabets.

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