Cyrillic alphabet

Cultural  

1. 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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Example Sentences

Bulgarian, like Russian, uses the Cyrillic alphabet, and a complex grammar structure.

From BBC

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

From Los Angeles Times

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 Literature

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

From New York Times

The Russian version, from the Cyrillic alphabet, is more rounded, like a 3.

From New York Times