cyrillic alphabet

English - Turkish

Definition of cyrillic alphabet in English Turkish dictionary

Kiril alfabesi

kiril abecesi

English - English

Definition of cyrillic alphabet in English English dictionary

An alphabet developed in the 9th centuryPaul Cubberley (1996) "The Slavic Alphabets". In Daniels and Bright, eds. The World's Writing Systems. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-507993-0. in Bulgaria, devised for writing the Old Church Slavonic liturgical language, and its adaptations used for several Slavic and other languages of Eastern Europe and Asia

Alphabet 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

an alphabet drived from the Greek alphabet and used for writing Slavic languages

Hyphenation

Cy·ril·lic al·pha·bet

Turkish pronunciation

sırîlîk älfıbet

Synonyms

cyrillic, cyrillic script

Pronunciation

/sərˈələk ˈalfəˌbet/ /sɜrˈɪlɪk ˈælfəˌbɛt/

Etymology

() Cyrillic + alphabet. Named after Saint Cyril (Ancient Greek Κύριλλος (Kurillos)), who devised a predecessor to Cyrillic script, the Glagolitic alphabet.