Cyrillic alphabet
The Cyrillic alphabet was invented in the 10th century by a Byzantine missionary in the First Bulgarian Empire, possibly St. Clement of Ohrid. This alphabet is based on the Greek alphabet with characters from the glagolitic alphabet by exclusively Slavic sounds, invented by the Saints Cyril and Methodius, missionaries of the Byzantine Empire, who implemented it to translate the Bible into the cultural context of the Slavic peoples in the 9th century . The language of this Bible is the ancient Church Slavic, based on a Slavic dialect learned in Thessalonica, Greece. This language was used by the Russian Orthodox Church between the 9th and 12th centuries. In century XIV arises the ecclesiastical Slavic, used today in the cult. Among the languages that use this alphabet are Abkhaz, Azerbaijani, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Chechen, Kazakh, Komi, Macedonian, Moldovan, Mongolian, Russian, Serbian, Tatar, Tajik, Kyrgyz, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Turkmen, Yakuto and other several. Some of these languages are also written in Latin alphabet.