Belarusian alphabet
Alphabet that uses letters from the Cyrillic script / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Main article: Belarusian language
See also: Cyrillic alphabets and Cyrillic script
The Belarusian alphabet is based on the Cyrillic script and is derived from the alphabet of Old Church Slavonic. It has existed in its modern form since 1918 and has 32 letters. See also Belarusian Latin alphabet and Belarusian Arabic alphabet.
Quick Facts Belarusian alphabet, Script type ...
Belarusian alphabet | |
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Script type | |
Time period | 10th century to present (Old East Slavic); modern orthography: since 1918 |
Languages | Belarusian |
Related scripts | |
Parent systems | Egyptian hieroglyphs[1]
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Sister systems | Belarusian Latin Belarusian Arabic Russian Ukrainian |
ISO 15924 | |
ISO 15924 | Cyrl (220), Cyrillic |
Unicode | |
Unicode alias | Cyrillic |
subset of Cyrillic (U+0400...U+04FF) | |
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. |
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