Nearly 300 million people in the world use the Cyrillic alphabet when writing. These are Slavic people from Southeastern Europe, as well as Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusian, representatives of numerous non-Slavic peoples in Russia – peoples from the Caucasus region, Siberia, people from former Soviet republics and Mongolians. At least 50 languages are currently written or used to be written in Cyrillic. Bulgaria is the only EU Member State using the Cyrillic and Bulgaria’s cultural contribution with its 30 letters cannot be denied. Until 2007 only the Greek and Latin alphabets were official …read more
Source: Radio Bulgaria
