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Cyrillisation

Cyrillisation is the alternative spelling 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...

Forms of Cyrillisation

pluralCyrillisations

Origin of Cyrillisation

From Cyrillic + -isation.

Questions about Cyrillisation

What is Cyrillisation the alternative spelling of?
Cyrillisation is the alternative spelling of Cyrillization.

Words near Cyrillisation in the dictionary

  1. Cyrillicization
  2. Cyrillicize
  3. Cyrillicized
  4. Cyrillicizes
  5. Cyrillicizing
  6. Cyrillisation
  7. Cyrillisations
  8. cyrillization
  9. Cyrillizations
  10. Cyrillize
  11. Cyrilo-Methodian

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