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Front Matter

Glagolitic

Created in 862 by Saint Cyril for missionary work among the Slavs — considered one of the most beautiful scripts ever devised.

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Era
Medieval
Region
Europe
System
Alphabet
Direction
Left to Right (LTR)
Signs
96
Status
Extinct
Created in 862 by Saint Cyril for missionary work among the Slavs — considered one of the most beautiful scripts ever devised. As the precursor to Cyrillic, it was eventually replaced by the simpler Cyrillic alphabet. In Croatia, it continued to be used in Catholic liturgy until the 14th century.
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The Letters

Signs · Unicode · Types
Sample GlyphsClick to copy
Unicode
Range 1U+2C00–U+2C5F
Total signs96
Unicode Blocks
Not in Unicode
No Unicode block data available for this script.
Glyph evolution
Form change over time
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Reading Mechanics

Direction · Method
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Direction
Left to Right (LTR)
왼쪽에서 오른쪽으로 표기.
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System
Alphabet
⌨
Input method
Direct Unicode input
Keyboard layout
Standard IME · input chart
Keyboard layout data not yet available.
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The Lineage

Family · Descendants
Phylogeny
Descendants of hieroglyphs
Phylogeny
Related scripts
Ancestors · Descendants · Family

Ancestors

Greek Alphabet

Same family

Greek AlphabetEtruscanLycianLatin AlphabetGothic ScriptCyrillic AlphabetGlagolitic
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In the World

Usage · Reach

Languages

Church SlavonicCroatian (historical)

Countries

CroatiaBulgariaNorth Macedonia