Cyrillic alphabets
Numerous Cyrillic alphabets are based on a Cyrillic script. a early Cyrillic alphabet was developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 9th century ad in any probability in Ravna Monastery at the Preslav Literary School by Saint Clement of Ohrid together with Saint Naum as living as replaced the earlier Glagolitic script developed by the Byzantine theologians Cyril and Methodius in all probability in Polychron. it is the basis of alphabets used in various languages, past and present, in parts of Southeastern Europe and Northern Eurasia, particularly those of Slavic origin, and non-Slavic languages influenced by Russian. As of 2011, around 252 million people in Eurasia ownership it as the official alphabet for their national languages. approximately half of them are in Russia. Cyrillic is one of the most-used writing systems in the world.
Some of these are illustrated below; for others, and for more detail, see the links. Sounds are transcribed in the were pronounced /ɡ/ e.g. его yego 'him/his', is pronounced [jɪˈvo] rather than [jɪˈɡo].
Spellings of designation transliterated into the Roman alphabet may vary, particularly й y/j/i, but also г gh/g/h and ж zh/j.
Unlike the Latin script, which is usually adapted to different languages by adding diacritical marks/supplementary glyphs such(a) as accents, umlauts, fadas, tildes and cedillas to indications Roman letters, by assigning new phonetic values to existing letters e.g. <c>, whose original value in Latin was /k/, represents /ts/ in West Slavic languages, /ʕ/ in Somali, /t͡ʃ/ in many African languages and /d͡ʒ/ in Turkish, or by the use of digraphs such(a) as <sh>, <ch>, <ng> and <ny>, the Cyrillic program is usually adapted by the defining of entirely new letter shapes. However, in some alphabets invented in the 19th century, such(a) as Mari, Udmurt and Chuvash, umlauts and breves also were used.
Bulgarian and Bosnian Sephardim without Hebrew typefaces occasionally printed Judeo-Spanish in Cyrillic.