Belarusian alphabet
The Belarusian alphabet is based on the Cyrillic script and is derived from the alphabet of Old Church Slavonic. It has existed in its modern form since 1918 and has 32 letters. See also Belarusian Latin alphabet and Belarusian Arabic alphabet.
| Belarusian alphabet | |
|---|---|
| Script type | |
Time period | 10th century to present (Old East Slavic); modern orthography: since 1918 |
| Languages | Belarusian |
| Related scripts | |
Parent systems | Egyptian hieroglyphs
|
Sister systems | Belarusian Latin Belarusian Arabic Russian Ukrainian |
| ISO 15924 | |
| ISO 15924 | Cyrl (220), Cyrillic |
| Unicode | |
Unicode alias | Cyrillic |
Unicode range | subset of Cyrillic (U+0400...U+04FF) |
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