Old Permic alphabet by usual writing. The inclusion of the latter aided the alphabet in greater acceptance among the medieval Permic speakers of the time. The alphabet was in use until the 17th century, when it was superseded by the Cyrillic script. Abur was also used as cryptographic writing for the Russian language. April 26, which is the saint's day of Stephen of Perm, is celebrated as Old Permic Alphabet Day. The Abur inscriptions are among the oldest relics of the Uralic languages. Only one of them has earlier documents: Hungarian, which had been written using the Old Hungarian script first before the
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