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Date: 1800-1900
Origin: Saint Cyril (827-69), Greek missionary who is said to have invented the alphabet

Cyrillic

 adjective
     
Related topics: Letters and punctuation
Cy‧ril‧lic
SLA the Cyrillic alphabet is the one used for Russian, Bulgarian, and some other Slavonic languages
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