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Early Cyrillic alphabet

Writing system developed in 9th century Bulgaria Early Cyrillic alphabetСловѣньска азъбоукꙑScript type Alphabet PeriodFrom c. 893 in BulgariaDirectionVariesLanguagesOld Church Slavonic, Church Slavonic, old versions of many Slavic languagesRelated scriptsParent systemsEgyptian hieroglyphsPhoenician alphabetGreek alphabet (with influence from the Glagolitic alphabet)Early Cyrillic alphabetChild systemsCyrillic scriptSister systemsLatin alphabetCoptic alphabetArmenian alphabetISO 15924ISO 15924Cyrs (221), Cyrillic (Old Church Slavonic variant)UnicodeUnicode rangeU+0400–U+04FF CyrillicU+0500–U+052F Cyrillic SupplementU+2DE0–U+2DFF Cyrillic Extended-AU+A640–U+A69F Cyrillic Extended-BU+1C80–U+1C8F Cyrillic Extended-C 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. South Slavic languages and dialects Western South Slavic Serbo-Croatian Standard languages Bosnian Croatian Montenegrin Serbian(Slavonic-Serbian) Dialects Shtokavian (Younger Ikavian BunjevacSlavoni