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Cyrillic is not an abjad as far as I know. I'm a native of a country that uses Cyrillic, but it's possible that I misunderstood the meaning of "abjad".
by vostok 10y ago
Cyrillic is not an abjad as far as I know. I'm a native of a country that uses Cyrillic, but it's possible that I misunderstood the meaning of "abjad".
- PeCaN 10y agoNo, you're quite right. Cyrillic writes vowels, which is the distinguishing factor between alphabet and abjad.
- pouetpouet 10y agoAn abjad is an alphabet of consonants eg Arabic, Hebrew, Syriac. Cyrillic alphabets have vowels.