Alphabet 19th century it once again became more and more popular. The Glagolitic alphabet was the initial script of the liturgical language Old Church Slavonic and became, together with the Greek uncial script, the basis of the Cyrillic script. Cyrillic is one of the most widely used modern alphabetic scripts, and is notable for its use in Slavic languages and also for other languages within the former Soviet Union. Cyrillic alphabets include the Serbian, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian. The Glagolitic alphabet is believed to have been created by Saints Cyril and Methodius, while the Cyrillic alphabet was invented by
Uyghur New Script official alphabet in China, but after the reintroduction of an Arabic-derived alphabet, , in 1982, there has been a huge decline in the use, and the majority of Uyghurs today use . For romanized Uyghur, the Latin script Uyghur Latin Yëziqi has become more common than . The letters in the UYY (Uyghur New Script) are, in order: Uyghur New Script ' (abbreviated UYY; literally "Uyghur New Script") or ' (literally "new script"; , , ; ; sometimes falsely rendered as "Yengi Yeziķ" or "Yengi Yezik̡"), is a Latin alphabet, with both Uniform Turkic Alphabet and Pinyin influence, used for