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16 unusual facts about Cyrillic script


Anarchist symbolism

The letter "A" is derived from the first letter of "anarchy" or "anarchism" in most European languages and is the same in both Latin and Cyrillic scripts.

Choba B CCCP

The title is often taken as if written in Latin letters (i.e. "choba b cccp"), but it is Russian, written in Cyrillic, transliterated Snova v SSSR, and pronounced in Russian roughly snova v ess-ess-ess-er.

Coptic alphabet

The Coptic alphabet in turn had a strong influence on the Cyrillic script.

Ė

This character is also used when transliterating the Cyrillic letter Э э into the Latin alphabet.

Hindu–Arabic numeral system

the widespread Western "Arabic numerals" used with the Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek alphabets in the table below labelled "European", descended from the "West Arabic numerals" which were developed in al-Andalus and the Maghreb (There are two typographic styles for rendering European numerals, known as lining figures and text figures).

Kamov Ka-22

The Kamov Ka-22 Vintokryl (rotor-wing, or literally, (air)screw-wing) (Cyrillic:Камов Ка-22 Винтокрыл) (NATO reporting name: Hoop) was a rotorcraft developed by Kamov for the Soviet Air Force.

Nas Ne Dogonyat

"Nas Ne Dogonyat" (Cyrillic: Нас не догонят; translation: Not Gonna Get Us") is a song by t.A.T.u. which was released as the band's second single from their debut album, 200 Po Vstrechnoy.

Nenad Mijatović

Nenad Mijatović (Cyrillic: Ненад Мијатовић; born January 22, 1987) is a Montenegrin professional basketball player.

Old Permic alphabet

The alphabet derived from Cyrillic and Greek, and Komi tribal signs, the latter being similar in the appearance to runes or siglas poveiras, because they were created by incisions, rather than by usual writing.

The alphabet was in use until the 17th century, when it was superseded by the Cyrillic script.

Pan ili Propal

Pan ili propal (Cyrillic: Пан или пропал) is a game show which aired on the Russian Channel One.

Pentagraph

In Cyrillic used for languages of the Caucasus, there are a couple five-letter sequences used for 'strong' (typically transcribed in the IPA as geminate, and doubled in Cyrillic) labialized consonants.

Podnebesnaya

Podnebesnaya (Cyrillic: Поднебесная; Tr. from Russian: Celestial) was a musical production company organized by producer Ivan Shapovalov.

Sdelka ili ne

Sdelka ili ne (Cyrillic: Сделка или не), is the Bulgarian version of Deal or No Deal, which airs on Nova Television.

Tetragraph

In Cyrillic used for languages of the Caucasus, there are tetragraphs as doubled digraphs used for 'strong' consonants (typically transcribed in the IPA as geminate), and also labialized homologues of trigraphs.

Word divider

In languages which use the Latin, Cyrillic, and Arabic alphabets, as well as other languages of Europe and the Mideast, the word divider is a blank space, or whitespace, a convention which is spreading, along with other aspects of European punctuation, to Asia and Africa.


Comparison of Unicode encodings

The next 1,920 characters, U+0080 to U+07FF (encompassing the remainder of almost all Latin alphabets, and also Greek, Cyrillic, Coptic, Armenian, Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac, Tāna and N'Ko), requires 16 bits to encode in both UTF-8 and UTF-16, and 32 bits in UTF-32.

Erzya literature

Erzya literature, written using Cyrillic, experienced a renaissance in the 1920s and 1930s.

Galina Antyufeyeva

Galina Mikhailovna Antyufeyeva (Cyrillic: Галина Михáйловна Антюфéева) is a Transnistrian politician and the wife of the country's Minister for National Security, Vladimir Antyufeyev.

Heinrich Schmidtgal

Heinrich Schmidtgal (Cyrillic: Генрих Шмидтгаль, romanized: Genrikh Shmidtgal; born 20 November 1985 in Esik, Kazakh SSR) is a Kazakh footballer of German descent who currently plays for Fortuna Düsseldorf in the 2. Bundesliga.

Interpreting notes

For example, the letter “E” laid on its side (like the Cyrillic letter sha, Ш) may represent Europe.

Kildin Sami orthography

Over the last century, the alphabet used to write Kildin Sami has changed three times: from Cyrillic to Latin and back again to Cyrillic.

Languages of Vojvodina

The Serbian language with Cyrillic script is in official use in all 45 municipalities of Vojvodina, while Serbian Latin script is in official use in only 23 of 45 municipalities.