Example sentences for: cyrillic

How can you use “cyrillic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • He was, however, taught the Cyrillic alphabet and could transcribe signs.

  • It is important, too, to note that writing systems are irrelevant: for instance, Polish is written (today) using the Roman alphabet, but Russian, a related Slavic language, uses the Cyrillic; Yiddish, a Germanic language, is written in Hebrew characters; Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit, which resemble one another rather closely in some respects, all use different alphabets; and early examples, utterly unrecognizable to untrained readers of modern languages, were written in cuneiform, quite suitable for writing on soft clay tablets with a pointed stylus, and hieroglyphics.

  • \' Us” use a child's reversal of the letter R. Similarly, the title of the movie The \?\ussians Are Coming, The \?\ussians Are Coming , which plays games with a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet (which is not an r).

  • Then, too, the OED does not always transliterate foreign scripts, which might put those who cannot read Chinese, Arabic, Cyrillic, Thai, etc., at a disadvantage when examining cognates or loanwords.

  • Today only the Cyrillic alphabet may be used, and new language edicts dictate which words are acceptable and which are taboo.


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