Cyrillic script
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Example of the Cyrillic script.
Excerpt from the manuscript "Bdinski Zbornik".
Written in 1360.
The Cyrillic script （/sɪˈrɪlɪk/ sə-RIL-ik） is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia and is used as the national script in various Slavic, Turkic,
Mongolic, Uralic, Caucasian and Iranic-speaking countries in Southeastern Europe, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, North Asia and East Asia.
As of 2019, around 250 million people in Eurasia use Cyrillic as the official script for their national languages, with Russia accounting for about half of them.
With the accession of Bulgaria to the European Union on 1 January 2007, Cyrillic became the third official script of the European Union, following the Latin and Greek alphabets.
In the 9th century AD, the Bulgarian tsar Simeon I the Great – following the cultural and political course of his father Boris I –
commissioned a new script, the Early Cyrillic alphabet, to be made at the Preslav Literary School in the First Bulgarian Empire,
which would replace the Glagolitic script, produced earlier by Saints Cyril and Methodius and the same disciples that created the new Slavic script in Bulgaria.
The usage of the Cyrillic script in Bulgaria was made official in 893.
The new script became the basis of alphabets used in various languages, especially those of Orthodox Slavic origin, and non-Slavic languages influenced by Bulgarian.
For centuries Cyrillic was used by Catholic and Muslim Slavs too （see Bosnian Cyrillic）.
Cyrillic is derived from the Greek uncial script, augmented by letters from the older Glagolitic alphabet, including some ligatures.
These additional letters were used for Old Church Slavonic sounds not found in Greek.
The script is named in honor of the Saint Cyril, one of the two Byzantine brothers, Saints Cyril and Methodius,...