As far back as the 19th century, some prominent Slavonic scholars had posited the idea that Slavs had already achieved a level of literacy in the pre-Christian era.

To make the first Slavonic alphabet just as divine, Cyril created the new letters using the three elements that were holy for Christianity - the cross, the triangle, and the circle. After the death of ...

Up to now, it was believed that the oldest Slavic alphabet was Glagolitic, invented by Byzantine monk St Cyril in the ninth century. Cyril and his brother St Methodius came to former Great Moravia, ...

The Cyrillic alphabet is used by many Slavic languages, including Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian, among others. The legacy of Cyril and Methodius extends beyond their linguistic ...

The alphabet included 24 symbols, the last seven of which were scratched onto the broken bone. A graduate student spotted the runes inscribed on the surface of a seventh-century cow bone.

Today, the Cyrillic alphabet is used by Slavic, Turkic, Uralic, Caucasian and other nations, including Mongolia, which adopted it in 1941.

SOFIA, May 24 (Xinhua) -- Bulgarians on Friday celebrated the Day of Bulgarian education, culture and the creation of the Slavonic alphabet in a national festival, also known as Alphabet Day.

The Slavonic alphabet is currently used in nearly 50 languages, including Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian, Belarusian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tajik, Turkmen, Ukrainian, and Uzbek.