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 Cyrillic_alphabet
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.
There are also other theories regarding the origins of the Cyrillic alphabet, namely that the alphabet was created by Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius themselves, or that it preceded the Glagolitic alphabet, representing a "transitional" stage between Greek and Glagolitic cursive, but these have been widely disproved.
The glyphs in the Cyrillic alphabet are, however, mainly Byzantine Greek letters.
http://www.tuxedo-shop.com/search.php?title=Cyrillic_alphabet   (2584 words)

  
 Glagolitic
The Cyrillic alphabet is derived from the Greek alphabet, with (at least 10) letters peculiar to Slavic languages being derived from the Glagolithic.
At the end of the 9th century, one of these students of Methodius who was settled in Preslav (Bulgaria) created the Cyrillic alphabet, which almost entirely replaced the Glagolitic during the Middle Ages.
The alphabet was then used in Great Moravia between 863 (when Cyril and Methodius arrived there) and 885 for government and religious documents and books, and at the Great Moravian Academy (Veľkomoravské učilište) founded by Cyril, where followers of Cyril and Methodius were educated (also by Methodius himself).
http://www.everybase.com/Glagolitic   (1277 words)

  
 Sha - encyclopedia article about Sha.
With his brother Methodius he is believed to have invented the Glagolitic alphabet, an alphabet used for Slavonic manuscripts before the development of the Cyrillic alphabet.
It is the 25th letter of the Russian alphabet Russian alphabet is a variant of the Cyrillic alphabet (Кириллица).
Sha (Ш, ш) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet Cyrillic alphabet (or azbuka, from the old name of the first letters) is an alphabet used to write six natural Slavic languages (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian) and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe.
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/SHA   (1277 words)

  
 newalphab
Though in most parts of the world this changing of alphabets might seem a bizarre form of cultural torture, for Azerbaijanis it is nothing new: they have changed alphabets twice before in this century--from Arabic to Latin (in the 1920s) and from Latin to Cyrillic (in the 1930s).
The writing on paper money is all in the new Latin alphabet; vehicle license plates appear to be issued in Cyrillic or Latin letters at random; buses advertise their destinations sometimes in Cyrillic, sometimes in Latin, sometimes in both alphabets.
Leaflets printed in Iran appeared, urging Muslims to return to their religious and cultural roots by reviving the Arabic alphabet, which, it was noted, is the alphabet of the Koran.
http://faculty.ed.umuc.edu/~jmatthew/articles/newalphab.html   (3078 words)

  
 Grenada content of Wikipedia free encyclopedia
In the late eighteenth century, the Romanians adopted the Latin alphabet; although Romanian is a Romance language, the Romanians were predominantly Orthodox Christians, and until the nineteenth century the Church used the Cyrillic alphabet.
The Orthodox Christian Slavs of eastern and southern Europe mostly used the Cyrillic alphabet, and the Greek alphabet was still in use by Greek-speakers around the eastern Mediterranean.
In the course of its history, the Latin alphabet was adapted for use for new languages, some of which had phonemes which were not used in languages previously written with this alphabet, and therefore diacritics and new letters were created as needed.
http://grenada.paellaman.com/grenadabrowse.php?title=Latin_alphabet   (3078 words)

  
 Cyrillic Alphabet
The source for the Cyrillic alphabet, which was formed in Bulgaria, is the Greek uncial alphabet.
Modern scientific research shows that Cyrillic was invented later than the second alphabet, Glagolitic, but still in the second half of the 9th century.
Many alphabets of Asiatic nations are also based on Cyrillic, for it is much easier to learn than Arabic or Chinese.
http://indoeuro.bizland.com/project/script/cyril.html   (675 words)

  
 Phoenician_alphabet
Modern alphabets thought to have descended from the Phoenician include Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Latin (via the Old Italic alphabet), and Cyrillic.
The Latin and the Cyrillic alphabets are derived from the Greek alphabet.
It later split off into a number of related alphabets, including the modern Hebrew alphabet, the Syriac alphabet, and the Nabatean alphabet, a highly cursive form that was the origin of the Arabic alphabet.
http://language.school-explorer.com/info/Phoenician_alphabet   (566 words)

  
 Latin Alphabet Information - Articles Free
In the late eighteenth century, the Romanians adopted the Latin alphabet; although Romanian is a Romance language, the Romanians were predominantly Orthodox Christians, and until the nineteenth century the Church used the Cyrillic alphabet.
The Latin alphabet spread from Italy, along with the Latin language, to the lands surrounding the Mediterranean Sea with the expansion of the Roman Empire.
From the Cumae alphabet, the Etruscan alphabet was derived and the Latins finally adopted 21 of the original 26 Etruscan letters.
http://www.articlesfree.com/index.php?title=Latin_alphabet   (3104 words)

  
 Information on Serbian language
In the early 19th century, Vuk Stefanovi Karadi, following the work of Sava Mrkalj, reformed the Cyrillic alphabet by introducing the Phonetics principle, as well as promoting the Spoken language of the people as a literary norm.
Another rare feature of Serbian language is the presence of two Alphabet : Cyrillic alphabet and Latin alphabet.
The following compares Српска Ћирилица (Serbian Cyrillic letters) or Aзбука (Azbuka) with Srpska Latinica (Serbian Latin letters) or Abeceda.
http://www.information-resource.net/search/Serbian_language.html   (1202 words)

  
 Robert J. Shea
First of all, she was raised near the Croatian border and Croatians use the Roman alphabet, meaning that Bosnians in that area primarily use the Roman alphabet.
I similarly understood that Bosnians near the border of Serbia to the south and east spoke Bosnian with Serbian influences or what she called Bosnian-Serbian, all of which suggests the existence of a narrow dialect continuum across Bosnia.
Bosnian Muslims also say Merhaba, which is a standard Turkish greeting.
http://www.serve.com/shea/kimshea.htm   (1202 words)

  
 Mongol Scripts
This alphabet, developed in 1648 by Zaya Pandit Namhaijamts (1599-1662), was intended mainly for Oriat but also for Mongol, Samgard, Tibetan and Sanskrit.
The letters of this syllabic alphabet are based on his native Tibetan script but contain other influences such as being written vertically like the Uighur Script and grouped into syllables like Khitan Small Script.
This script was intended to be a universal script for all languages spoken in the Mongol Empire including Mongol, Arabic, Tibetan, Chinese, Sanskrit and Turkic.
http://www.viahistoria.com/SilverHorde/research/MongolScripts.html   (1202 words)

  
 THE ALPHABET A Key to the History of Mankind
Early Slavonic alphabets: Cyrillie alphabet; adoption of the Cyrillic alphabet for, and its adaptation to, other language; reform of Russian orthography; Bukvitsa; Glagolitic alphabet; origin of Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabets; bibliography.
Arabic alphabet: Arabic language and script; origin of Arabic alphabet; early development of Arabic alphabet; development of Arabic script: Kufic and Naskhi; modern Arabic alphabet; diacritical points; adaptation of the Arabic character to other languages.
Offshoots of Aramaic alphabet; classical Hebrew alphabet: origin; inscriptions and manuscripts; varieties of Hebrew alphabet; modern Hebrew alphabet; vowel marks; other diacritical marks; origin of punctuation marks and their employment; Yiddish and Judezmo.
http://www.exoticindiaart.com/book/details/IDD824   (1157 words)

  
 Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian languages, alphabets and pronunciation
The Serbs aligned themselves with Constantinople and the Eastern Orthodox church and adopted the Cyrillic alphabet though also use the Latin alphabet, while the Croats favoured the Roman Catholic church and the Glagolitic alphabet.
The Latin alphabet was gradually adopted by the Croats, though they continued to use Glagolitic for religious writings until the 19th century.
Serbian (&;), Croatian (Hrvatski) and Bosnian (Bosanski) are closely related Southern Slavonic languages formerly known collectively as Serbo-Croat.
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/serbo-croat.htm   (1157 words)

  
 Alphabet - free-definition
The alphabets of Europe, including the Roman alphabet and its descendants and the Cyrillic alphabet, developed for the eastern Slavic languages, and the runic alphabets are all themselves descended from the Greek alphabet.
The Aramaic alphabet, was probably also the ancestor of the Brahmic alphabets of India, which spread to Southeast Asia and Indonesia with the spread of Buddhism and Hinduism.
The Syriac alphabet was used by Syrian Christians after the third century CE, and was adapted to create the alphabets of northern Asia, including the Sogdian, Manichean, Uighur, Mongolian, and Manchu alphabets.
http://www.free-definition.com/Alphabet.html   (1157 words)

  
 Glagolitic alphabet: Information From Answers.com
The Cyrillic alphabet is derived from the Greek alphabet, with (at least 10) letters peculiar to Slavic languages being derived from the Glagolithic.
The alphabet was then used in Great Moravia between 863 (when Cyril and Methodius arrived there) and 885 for government and religious documents and books, and at the Great Moravian Academy (Veľkomoravské učilište) founded by Cyril, where followers of Cyril and Methodius were educated (also by Methodius himself).
Another theory asserts that the Glagolitic alphabet was based on ancient Slavic runes (chrti i rezi, i.e., lines and notches), which like the Germanic runes were only used in sacred texts of the pre-Christian Slavic religion.
http://www.answers.com/topic/glagolitic-alphabet   (1226 words)

  
 8.1 Writers Speak out on Azeri
After the October Revolution, Cyrillic which was the alphabet of the most progressive and advanced nation became the alphabet of a number of Soviet nations.
This was one of the disadvantages of the Arabic alphabet.
Stalin was concerned that the Latin alphabet could become a unifying force for the Muslim Turkic nations.
http://www.azeri.org/Azeri/az_english/81_folder/81_articles/81_writers.html   (1906 words)

  
 Writing Mongol in Uighur Script
Various attempts have been made to replace it with other alphabets throughout its history but none were successful until the mid 20th century when Cyrillic ultimately became the standard alphabet for Mongolic languages spoken in Russia and Mongolia.
There were other failed attempts to replace Mongol Script with different alphabets including Soyombo, Ali Gali, and Clear Script.
This article will show the letters, in their various forms, along with their Latin and Cyrillic equivalents.
http://silverhorde.viahistoria.com/research/UighurScript.html   (1906 words)

  
 Slavic Department Graduate Courses
Reading and translation of selected texts, which are presented in both the old Cyrillic alphabet and modern Latin alphabet transcription (similar to Czech and Polish).
Reading and linguistic analysis of selected Old Church Slavonic texts (in old Cyrillic and scholarly transcription).
Historical, ethnological and stylistic study of lore—beliefs, traditions, customs—and symbolic design of the South Slavs with focus on their role in the development of tribal and national cultures.
http://www.utoronto.ca/slavic/courses/grad.html   (1906 words)

  
 Greek alphabet - Psychology Central
The Greek alphabet originated as a modification of the Phoenician alphabet and in turn gave rise to the Gothic, Armenian, Glagolitic, Cyrillic, and Coptic alphabets, as well as our own Latin alphabet, as documented in History of the alphabet.
The Coptic alphabet is the Greek alphabet augmented with several new letters.
The Hebrew text of the Bible was written in Greek in Origen's Hexapla.
http://psychcentral.com/psypsych/Greek_alphabet   (1781 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Orthography
For any word written in a language with whose alphabet or alphabet equivalent has two cases, such as those using the Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, or Armenian alphabet, capitalization is the writing of that word with its first letter in majuscules (uppercase) and the remaining letters in minuscules (lowercase).
Majuscules or capital letters (in the Roman alphabet: A, B, C,...) are one type of case in a writing system.
In orthography and typography, letter case (or just case) is the distinction between majuscule (capital or upper-case) and minuscule (lower-case) letters.
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Orthography   (816 words)

  
 Articles - Glagolitic alphabet
The Cyrillic alphabet is derived from the Greek alphabet, with (at least 10) letters peculiar to Slavic languages being derived from the Glagolithic.
Some of the students of the Ohrid academy went to Bohemia where the alphabet was used in the 10th and 11th century, along with other scripts.
The alphabet was then used in Great Moravia between 863 (when Cyril and Methodius arrived there) and
http://mynotebookstore.com/articles/Glagolitic_alphabet?...   (816 words)

  
 Cyrillic language alphabets and how they diverge from one another
Note: Macedonian uses the Serbian form of the Cyrillic alphabet, but uses:
See also CPSO's Identification of Serbian, Croatian, and Bosnian, which says that "works in the Cyrillic alphabet are probably Serbian.
The following letters in the Cyrillic alphabet diverge from those in Russian, as found in the Library of Congress Russian transliteration table.
http://www.library.yale.edu/cataloging/music/cyrillic.htm   (816 words)

  
 Iranian Scripts: Persian Alphabet
The form of Persian spoken in Afghanistan is called Dari, while the form spoken in Tajikistan is known as Tajik and is written with the Cyrillic alphabet.
After the Islamic conquest of the Persian Sassanid Empire in 642 CE, Arabic became the language of government, culture and especially religion.
he Persian language has been written with a number of different scripts, including Old Persian Cuneiform, Pahlavi, Aramaic, and Avestan.
http://www.iranchamber.com/scripts/persian_alphabet.php   (816 words)

  
 The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Indo-Iranian pt. 3
It is practically the same language as Persian, except for being written with the Cyrillic alphabet.
In Iraq and Iran, Kurdish is written in a modified Persi-Arabic alphabet, while in Turkey the Latin alphabet is used, and in Syria, Persian is employed.
The Avesta is the sacred book of the Zoroaster religion; Zend is the name of its Pehlevi (Middle Persian) translation.
http://www.lib.umt.edu/guide/lang/indirn3h.htm   (816 words)

  
 Gurmukhi alphabet --  Encyclopædia Britannica
The Cyrillic alphabet is a writing system developed during the 10th century for Slavic-speaking people who belonged to the Eastern Orthodox church.
This kind of writing is called alphabetic, from the names alpha and beta—the first two letters in the Greek alphabet.
The alphabet passed in the course of time from the Greeks back to the Semites, thus repaying the debt of the original borrowing of the Phoenician writing by the Greeks.
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=39353   (816 words)

  
 THE NEW CURRENCY OF BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINIA
However Serb notes have the legends with the Cyrillic alphabet first, followed by the Latin alphabet, while the Federated notes have the legends using the Latin alphabet first.
All three ethnic groups speak forms of Serbo-Croatian, which can be rendered in either the Cyrillic or Latin alphabet.
Both were traditionally taught in schools, however with the rise of nationalism, the Serbs have been moving towards the use of just the Cyrillic alphabet, while the Croats and Muslims move towards using the Latin alphabet.
http://www.coinmall.com/CSNA/bosnia2.htm   (816 words)

  
 yugo_serb
To preach and to teach in the native Slavonic tongue, Cyril developed a script, derived from the ancient Greek, which eventually became what is now known as Cyrillic.
He based his modified Greek script on the phonics of an ancient dialect spoken by the Slavic tribes in Macedonia, a dialect known today by Slavic Orthodox Christians as "Old Church Slavonic." Present day Slovenia and Croatia in the western Balkans eventually gravitated to Rome, adopted the Latin alphabet and became Western Christians.
The new Presidential Communist crest was stamped in their place, "Preduzece 44", in either Cyrillic or Latin script, marked on the left side of the receiver ring and the Cyrillic-script acronym FNRJ, the Federated People's Republic of Yugoslavia, was stamped on the right side of the receiver ring.
http://www.carbinesforcollectors.com/yugo_serb.html   (816 words)

  
 Iranian languages Persian
Today's Iranian languages are written in adaptations of the Arabic alphabet, except for Tajiki, which uses Cyrillic characters.
AD Modern Persian is the medium of an old and great literature and is written in a modification of the Arabic alphabet.
Grammatically, much simplification of inflection took place in Middle Persian, which was recorded both in an Aramaic alphabet and in a script called Pahlavi.
http://www.geocities.com/fateh666/iranian_languages_persian.html   (816 words)

  
 Unicode 4.1.0
Glagolitic, from the Slavic root "glagol" meaning "word", is an alphabet considered to have been devised by St. Cyril in the ninth century CE, for his translation of the Scriptures and liturgical books into Slavonic.
Glagolitic is treated as a separate alphabet from Cyrillic because of its historical primacy, and because the letter shapes in the two alphabets are completely dissimilar: the one can in no sense be regarded as a variant of the other.
It should be noted, however, that the 14 Coptic letters derived from Demotic, which had already been encoded in the Greek and Coptic block, are unchanged, and need to be included in any complete implementation of Coptic.
http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.1.0   (6390 words)

  
 Information on Dje
Dje, or Djerv (Ђ, ђ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, used in the Serbian language to represent the sound /ʥ/, a Voiced alveolo-palatal affricate.
Koppa (Cyrillic) Uk (Cyrillic) Omega (Cyrillic) Ot (Cyrillic) Round Omega Yat A iotified
I (Cyrillic) Ukrainian I Yi (Cyrillic) Short I Je (Cyrillic) Ka (Cyrillic) El (Cyrillic)
http://www.information-resource.net/search/Dje.html   (172 words)

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