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Topic: Cyrillic alphabet

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Sveta Romanova,
Intelligence Officer

Their alphabet is known as Cyrillic and still today most of the Slavic countries, including Russia, use an extension of that alphabet.
The alphabet sequence in Azeri Cyrillic was different because it was based on the Russian alphabet sequence.

Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder

Answer: There are two alphabets in Mongolia - the old Mongolian script and a version of the Russian cyrillic script.
The Cyrillic alphabet was introduced in 1924, the Latin alphabet was used in 1931-38, and since 1938 the written language has been based on the Cyrillic alphabet.
The Cyrillic alphabet used in modern Slavic languages is often attributed to St.

Astrid Schuhmann,
Backpacker

The Cyrillic encodings widely used on the Internet (KOI8, Windows CP 1251 and others) were created on the basis of the Latin and Russian alphabets.

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