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Cyrillicization

Cyrillicization is the alternative form of Cyrillization.

Meaning of Cyrillization

Noun

Cyrillization (countable and uncountable, plural Cyrillizations)

  1. The transliteration of text into the Cyrillic alphabet.
  2. The adoption of the Cyrillic alphabet for a language's writing system.
    • As far as I know, Cyrillization of Yiddish was never suggested by anyone.1998, Avraham Greenbaum, “Yiddish Language Politics in the Ukraine, 1930-1936”, in Dov-Ber Kerler, editor, Politics of Yiddish: Studies in Language, Literature & Society, Rowman Altamira, →ISBN, page...

Questions about Cyrillicization

What is Cyrillicization the alternative form of?
Cyrillicization is the alternative form of Cyrillization.

Words near Cyrillicization in the dictionary

  1. Cyrillianism
  2. Cyrillic
  3. cyrillic numeral
  4. cyrillic numerals
  5. Cyrillicism
  6. Cyrillicization
  7. Cyrillicize
  8. Cyrillicized
  9. Cyrillicizes
  10. Cyrillicizing
  11. Cyrillisation

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