what is "Cyrillic"?

Question

Can anyone tell me what cyrillic is? I've searched, and I'm not sure, but I think it's the Russian "alphabet". Is this right?

Answer 1

it is the russian alphabet, it was created by st. cyrill based on the greek alphabet to teach the illiterate slavs in order to preach to therm (this constituting one of the original differences b/w Catholicism and Orthodox, i.e. the language of Mass)

Answer 2

A good question. It is right. It comes from the Bulgarian monks Cyril and Metodio, who created the cyrillic alphabet, used by Bulgarians and Russians.

By the way, don't tell Bulgarians that it is the Russian alphabet. They are very proud of being they who created it . The Russians adopted it

Answer 3

Cyrillic is the alphabet used by several Slavic languages, including Russian; it was supposedly invented by St. Cyril for use in writing church documents. Some sources say this is incorrect, and simply consider it as a character set derived from the Greek alphabet.

Answer 4

Two byzantine monks, Cyril and Methodius were sent to preach the orthodox cristian faith to the slavic people soon after they arrived in europe. Since unlike the catholic church, wich until recently was only using latin, the orthodoxes have always adopted local languages, Cyril learned the slavic language and developed a new alphabet for it (the slavs were not writting yet), based on the greek (not latin), but with many different letters, since slavs pronounce many different sounds. Cyrillic is now used in the x-soviet union, bulgaria, serbia etc.

Answer 5

The Cyrillic alphabet has been adapted to write over 50 different languages, mainly in Russia, Central Asia and Eastern Europe. In many cases additional letters are used, some of which are adaptations of standard Cyrillic letters, while others are taken from the Greek or Latin alphabets.







http://www.omniglot.com/writing/cyrillic.htm

Answer 6

Yes, Cyrillic is the alphabet used to write Russian. It's also used in Ukrainian, Belarusian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Kazakh, Turkmen, Mongolian, etc.

Answer 7

Cyrillic

adj



1. Belonging or relating to the alphabet used for Russian, Bulgarian and other Slavonic languages.



Etymology: 19c: named after St Cyril who was said to have devised it.

Answer 8

What Is Cyrillic