Cyrillic alphabet

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/cyrillic-alphabet

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the number of languages utilizing cyrillic?Over 50 languages currently employ the Cyrillic script
2. What is the significant reformer?Peter the Great introduced a modernized 'civil script' in early 18th-century Russia
3. Who helped create the Cyrillic alphabet?Saints Cyril and Methodius started the idea, and their students, especially Clement of Ohrid, made the final script in the First Bulgarian Empire.
4. Why did the Cyrillic alphabet add new letters like Ж, Ч, and Ш?The new letters like Ж, Ч, and Ш were added so the alphabet could write sounds that Greek letters didn't have, making it easier to write Slavic words.

Uncial Script: A style of book-writing used by scribes in antiquity and the early Middle Ages.
Phoneme: The smallest unit of sound in a language that can distinguish one word from another.
Unicode: A universal standard for encoding text characters from all writing systems.