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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Cyrillic alphabet

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

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2025

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

From New York Times ● Apr. 29, 2022

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

From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2019

They use the Cyrillic alphabet, little-known Unicode symbols, and Zalgo text that brings to mind Cthulhu.

From Slate ● May 11, 2018

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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