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CYRILLIC is an alphabet used in the writing of several Slavic languages, like Bulgarian, Byelorussian, Macedonian, Russian, Serb and Ukrainian. It was developed to serve the liturgical language of Glagolitic during the 10th century by two Greek evangelizing missionaries and brothers, Cyril and Methodius. Specially designed for Slavic-speaking people who belonged to the oriental church, Cyrillic was based on Greek and Hebrew letters. Although it originally had 43 letters due to the variety of sounds in the original and pristine Slavic language of the time, modern Cyrillic has fewer letters, depending on national phonetic divergences. Certain Slavic languages are, however, written only in the Latin (Roman) alphabet. |
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