01OVERVIEW
Front Matter
SCRIPT · PROFILE
Glagolitic
Created in 862 by Saint Cyril for missionary work among the Slavs — considered one of the most beautiful scripts ever devised.
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.
04SPECIMEN
The Letters
Signs · Unicode · TypesSample GlyphsClick to copy
Unicode
Range 1U+2C00–U+2C5F
Total signs96
Unicode Blocks
Not in Unicode
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Glyph evolution
Form change over time
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06MECHANICS
Reading Mechanics
Direction · Method↔
Direction
Left to Right (LTR)
Written left to right.
α
System
Alphabet
⌨
Input method
Direct Unicode input
Keyboard layout
Standard IME · input chart
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07LINEAGE
The Lineage
Family · DescendantsPhylogeny
Ancestors & descendants
Phylogeny
Related scripts
Ancestors · Descendants · Family
08REACH