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Cyrillic alphabet

Cultural

The alphabet used for writing the Russian language and several related languages. Most of its letters differ from those in the Latin alphabet, which is used to write English and other western European languages.

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The Russian tricolor is omnipresent, as is the Cyrillic alphabet.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2023

The Cyrillic alphabet was daunting, but numbers were the same.

From New York Times • Apr. 29, 2022

While zed in the Russian Cyrillic alphabet is written differently - and looks like a 3 - most Russians recognise Latin letters.

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2022

One, the hackers embedded in their code the Cyrillic alphabet, Russian alphabet.

From Salon • Jun. 6, 2019

When a spectator from Moscow asked for an autograph, Bobby signed it using the Russian Cyrillic alphabet, needing to change only a few letters.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

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