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Cyrillic alphabet

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

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

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

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“Z,” as it appears plastered on Russian billboards today, isn’t even in the Cyrillic alphabet.

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

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