Cyrillic script consonants from the older Glagolitic alphabet for sounds not found in Greek. Tradition holds that Cyrillic and Glagolitic were formalized either by Saints Cyril and Methodius who brought Christianity to the southern Slavs, or by their disciples. Paul Cubberley posits that although Cyril may have codified and expanded Glagolitic, it was his students in the First Bulgarian Empire under Tsar Simeon the Great that developed Cyrillic from the Greek letters in the 890s as a more suitable script for church books. Later Cyrillic spread among other Slavic peoples, as well as among non-Slavic Vlachs. Cyrillic and Glagolitic were used for
Elbasan alphabet this alphabet of Albanian, whereas Shuteriqi and Domi see a strong influence of Bulgarian due to the jurisdiction, until 1767, of the Bulgarian-rite Archbishopric of Ohrid. Elbasan alphabet The Elbasan script is a mid 18th-century alphabetic script used for the Albanian language. It was named after the city of Elbasan, where it was invented, and was used mainly in the area of Elbasan and Berat, and is the oldest original script used to write Albanian. It was created for the "Elbasan Gospel Manuscript", also known as the "Anonimi i Elbasanit" ("the Anonymous of Elbasan"), which is the primary document associated