The alphabet comprises 33 letters, representing 40 phonemes. The apostrophe is also used in the spelling of some words, but is not considered a letter. Ukrainian orthography is based on the phonemic principle, w… See more

The Cyrillic script was a writing system developed in the First Bulgarian Empire in the tenth century, to write the Old Church Slavonic liturgical language. It was named after Saint Cyril, who with his brother Methodius had … See more

In print, several lowercase Cyrillic letters resemble smaller versions of their corresponding uppercase forms.
Handwritten Cyrillic cursive letterforms vary somewhat from their corresponding printed (typeset) c… See more