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The first Slavic alphabet.
Also known as: Old Slavic alphabet
The alphabet devised for Slavonic before Cyrillic, and displaced by it almost everywhere.
Writes Old Church Slavonic in an alphabet devised for it.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Attributed to Cyril and Methodius, which makes Cyrillic — named after Cyril — the script he did not invent, one of the more durable misattributions in the history of writing.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Survived in Croatian liturgical use for centuries after being displaced elsewhere, so a script can outlive its own replacement in a single region.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Rounded letters built from circles, triangles and loops, bearing no visual resemblance to Greek or Latin forms.