Who adopted the Greek alphabet into the Slavic languages?
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Who adopted the Greek alphabet into the Slavic languages?
Slavic Languages:
Slavic languages encompass a variety of related languages rooted in Indo-European. Slavic languages include Russian, Polish, Czech, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, and more. It is estimated that about 225 million people, mostly in Europe and parts of Asia, natively speak a Slavic language.
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View this answerThe Slavic languages use the Cyrillic alphabet; it was Greek monk St. Cyril (827 CE–869 CE) who first adopted aspects of the Greek alphabet into...
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Chapter 2 / Lesson 3The world's major written languages use different letters, characters, symbols, and diacritics to communicate meaning. Explore the origins of writing, discover how human beings learn to use it, and examine the most common characteristics of the world's major written languages.