Early Cyrillic Alphabet - Numerals, Diacritics and Punctuation

Numerals, Diacritics and Punctuation

Each letter had a numeric value also, inherited from the corresponding Greek letter. A titlo over a sequence of letters indicated their use as a number. See Cyrillic numerals, Titlo.

Several diacritics, adopted from Polytonic Greek orthography, were also used (these may not appear correctly in all web browsers; they are supposed to be directly above the letter, not off to its upper right):

ӓ trema, diaeresis (U+0308)

а̀ varia (grave accent), indicating stress on the last syllable (U+0340)

а́ oksia (acute accent), indicating a stressed syllable (Unicode U+0341)

а҃ titlo, indicating abbreviations, or letters used as numerals (U+0483)

а҄ kamora (circumflex accent), indicating palatalization (U+0484); in later Church Slavonic, it disambiguates plurals from homophonous singulars.

а҅ dasia or dasy pneuma, rough breathing mark (U+0485)

а҆ psili, zvatel'tse, or psilon pneuma, soft breathing mark (U+0486). Signals a word-initial vowel, at least in later Church Slavonic.

а҆̀ Combined zvatel'tse and varia is called apostrof.

а҆́ Combined zvatel'tse and oksia is called iso.

Punctuation marks:

· ano teleia (U+0387), a middle dot used as a word separator

, comma (U+002C)

. full stop (U+002E)

։ Armenian full stop (U+0589), resembling a colon

჻ Georgian paragraph separator (U+10FB)

⁖ triangular colon (U+2056, added in Unicode 4.1)

⁘ diamond colon (U+2058, added in Unicode 4.1)

⁙ quintuple colon (U+2059, added in Unicode 4.1)

; Greek question mark (U+037E), similar to a semicolon

! exclamation mark (U+0021)