On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Cyrillic. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as alphabet and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Cyrillic in a sentence
Cyrillic meaning
Denoting an alphabet devised for writing the Old Church Slavonic liturgical language, and its adaptations used for several languages of Eastern Europe and Asia; of or relating to this writing system.
Synonyms of Cyrillic
Using Cyrillic
- The main meaning on this page is: Denoting an alphabet devised for writing the Old Church Slavonic liturgical language, and its adaptations used for several languages of Eastern Europe and Asia; of or relating to this writing system.
- Useful related words include: alphabet, cyrillic alphabet.
- In the example corpus, cyrillic often appears in combinations such as: the cyrillic, cyrillic alphabet, of cyrillic.
Context around Cyrillic
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 10 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Cyrillic
- In this selection, "cyrillic" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, italic, tenth, pro, alphabet, script and letter stand out and add context to how "cyrillic" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include although cyrillic is taught and arabic chinese cyrillic greek hebrew. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "cyrillic" sits close to words such as abingdon, aborigines and abrahams, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with cyrillic
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Aleut was written in the Cyrillic script beginning in 1829. (10 words)
This page features the Cyrillic script Russian is written using a Cyrillic alphabet. (13 words)
Although Cyrillic is taught in Bosnia, most Bosnians, especially non-Serbs ( Bosniaks and Croats ), favor Latin. (16 words)
Rotts is pleased that people have re-used those letters, re-claiming them and, in some cases, manipulating them to spell out words, as if they were just warped characters from the Latin alphabet (Using the Cyrillic "я" as an "R" for instance). (43 words)
Specific Russian (top) and proper Serbian/Macedonian (bottom) letters Note: in some fonts or styles, lowercase italic Cyrillic д ( д ) may look like Latin g and lowercase italic Cyrillic т ( т ) may look exactly like a capital italic T ( T ), only small. (42 words)
In both cases, spelling is phonetic and spellings in the two alphabets map to each other one-to-one: Latin to Cyrillic Cyrillic to Latin The digraphs Lj, Nj and Dž represent distinct phonemes and are considered to be single letters. (41 words)
Example sentences (20)
Hence expressions such as "И is the tenth Cyrillic letter" typically refer to the order of the Church Slavonic alphabet; not every Cyrillic alphabet uses every letter available in the script.
In both cases, spelling is phonetic and spellings in the two alphabets map to each other one-to-one: Latin to Cyrillic Cyrillic to Latin The digraphs Lj, Nj and Dž represent distinct phonemes and are considered to be single letters.
Optima Pro Cyrillic (2010) In April 2010, Linotype announced the release of Cyrillic version of the original Optima family, in OpenType Pro font formats.
Specific Russian (top) and proper Serbian/Macedonian (bottom) letters Note: in some fonts or styles, lowercase italic Cyrillic д ( д ) may look like Latin g and lowercase italic Cyrillic т ( т ) may look exactly like a capital italic T ( T ), only small.
The development of some Cyrillic computer typefaces from Latin ones has also contributed to the visual Latinization of Cyrillic type.
This page features the Cyrillic script Russian is written using a Cyrillic alphabet.
When practical Cyrillic keyboard layouts or fonts are not available, computer users sometimes use transliteration or look-alike "volapuk" encoding to type languages that are normally written with the Cyrillic alphabet.
Rotts is pleased that people have re-used those letters, re-claiming them and, in some cases, manipulating them to spell out words, as if they were just warped characters from the Latin alphabet (Using the Cyrillic "я" as an "R" for instance).
I wouldn’t even try to type the Ukrainian equivalent of “Bon appetit,” with that Cyrillic alphabet (and yes, I know it’s probably not actually from Kiev), but I did come across this online.
Each “boulder” is abstracted and made of letters from 8 different alphabets: Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese and Latin.
While the Cyrillic letters don’t actually spell Facebook, the sequence bears a striking similarity to the English spelling of Facebook.
After the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991, some of the former republics officially shifted from Cyrillic to Latin.
After the failed revolt, the Russian government reintroduced the use of Cyrillic to Belarusian in 1864 and no documents in Belarusian were permitted by Russian government until 1905.
Aleut was written in the Cyrillic script beginning in 1829.
All in all, this makes Serbo-Croatian the only Slavic language to officially use both the Latin and Cyrillic scripts, albeit the Latin version is more commonly used.
Although Cyrillic is taught in Bosnia, most Bosnians, especially non-Serbs ( Bosniaks and Croats ), favor Latin.
A similar point of view was also voiced by H. G. Lunt in 1974 when, after suggesting that the Cyrillic texts show more specifically eastern Bulgarian dialectal features of OCS..
Aušra was printed in Latin characters banned under Russian law, which mandated the Cyrillic alphabet for printing Lithuanian.
Camel case is often used to transliterate initialisms into alphabets where two letters may be required to represent a single character of the original alphabet, e.g., DShK from Cyrillic ДШК.
Character repertoire (the abstract list of characters): The character repertoire is an abstract list of more than one million characters found in a wide variety of scripts including Latin, Cyrillic, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Hebrew, and Aramaic.
Common combinations with cyrillic
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the cyrillic 18×
- cyrillic alphabet 12×
- of cyrillic 8×
- cyrillic script 7×
- cyrillic and 6×
- cyrillic letter 4×
- cyrillic letters 4×
- and cyrillic 4×
- cyrillic is 4×
- cyrillic to 3×