Early Cyrillic alphabet | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-11-08

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Early Cyrillic alphabet

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The Early Cyrillic alphabet is a writing system that was developed during the late ninth century on the basis of the Greek alphabet for the Slavic peoples living near the Byzantine Empire in South East and Central Europe. The objective was to make it possible for them to have Christian service in their mother tongues, instead of in Greek, which they did not understand, and to bring them closer to the cultural influence of Christianity, the official religion of the Byzantine Empire.
It was developed in the Preslav Literary School in the capital city of the First Bulgarian Empire in order to write the Old Church Slavonic language. The modern Cyrillic script is still used primarily for some Slavic languages and for East European and Asian languages that were under Russian cultural influence during the 20th century. 
Among some of the traditionally culturally influential countries using it are Bulgaria, Serbia, Russia, Ukraine.