Early Cyrillic alphabet Bulgarian Empire in order to write the Old Church Slavonic language. The modern Cyrillic script is still used primarily for some Slavic languages and for East European and Asian languages that were under Russian cultural influence during the 20th century. Among some of the traditionally culturally influential countries using it are Bulgaria, Serbia, Russia, Ukraine. The earliest form of manuscript Cyrillic, known as "ustav," was based on Greek uncial script, augmented by ligatures and by letters from the Glagolitic alphabet for consonants not found in Greek. The Glagolitic alphabet was created by the monk Saint Cyril, possibly with the aid
Pegon script Pegon script Pegon is an Arabic alphabet used to write the Javanese and Sundanese languages, as an alternative to the Latin alphabet or the Javanese script and the old Sundanese script. In particular, it was used for religious (Islamic) writing and poetry from the fifteenth century, particularly in writing commentaries of Quran. The word Pegon originated from a Javanese word "pégo", which means "deviate", due to the practice of writing Javanese language with Arabic script, which was considered unconventional by Javanese people. Pegon includes symbols for sounds that are not present in standard Arabic. The main difference between Jawi and