Early Cyrillic alphabet
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The Early Cyrillic alphabet, also called classical Cyrillic or paleo-Cyrillic, is an alphabetic writing system that was developed in Bulgaria in the Preslav Literary School during the late 9th century
View of the cave monastery near the village of Krepcha, Opaka Municipality in Bulgaria. Here is the oldest Cyrillic inscription dated of 921.
The Cyrillic alphabet on birch bark document № 591 from ancient Novgorod (Russia). Dated to 1025–1050 AD.
Codex Suprasliensis
Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander
Yus
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Little yus and big yus, or jus, are letters of the Cyrillic script representing two Common Slavonic nasal vowels in the early Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabets. Each can occur in iotated form, formed
Early Cyrillic alphabet
…in borrowings. Л л людиѥ ljudije l ; sometimes 30 Greek lambda Λ people When marked with a palatalization mark or followed by a palatalizing vowel (ю, ѭ, or ꙗ, and sometimes ѣ), this letter is pronounced ; some manuscripts do not mark palatalization, in which case it must be inferred from context. М м…
A beard tax token from 1705 containing Ѧ