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    Time periodEarliest variants exist c. 893 – c. 940
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    Cyrillic script - Wikipedia

    Etymology

    Since the script was conceived and popularised by the followers of Cyril and Methodius in Bulgaria, rather than by Cyril and Methodius themselves, its name denotes homage rather than authorship. See more

    History

    The Cyrillic script was created during the First Bulgarian Empire. Modern scholars believe that the Early Cyrillic alphabet was created at the Preslav Literary School, the most important early literary and cultural center of th… See more

    Letters

    Cyrillic script spread throughout the East Slavic and some South Slavic territories, being adopted for writing local languages, such as Old East Slavic. Its adaptation to local languages produced a number of Cyrillic alph… See more

    Letterforms and type design

    The development of Cyrillic letter forms passed directly from the medieval stage to the late Baroque, without a Renaissance phase as in Western Europe. Late Medieval Cyrillic letters (categorized as vyaz' and still found on m… See more

    Usage of Cyrillic versus other scripts

    A number of languages written in a Cyrillic alphabet have also been written in a Latin alphabet, such as Azerbaijani, Uzbek, Serbian, and Romanian (in the Moldavian SSR until 1989 and in the Danubian Principalities throughout … See more

    Computer encoding

    As of Unicode version 16.0, Cyrillic letters, including national and historical alphabets, are encoded across several blocks:
    • Cyrillic: U+0400–U+04FF
    • Cyrillic Supplement: U+0500–U+052F… See more

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