[bg;EN] Ден на Буквите *** Day of Letters

Аз

Буквите

Владея,

Говоря:

Добър

Е

Животът!

Азъ

Бꙋки

Вѣди

Глаголи

Добро

Есть

Жівете

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May 24, Day of Letters

celebrating Cyrillic writing,

used since the 9th century in Bulgaria

and later in Russia, Serbia and others.

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Pictured:

Cyrillic letters

A, Be, Ve,

Ghe, De,

Ie, Zhe

(Unicode: from U+0410).

The sequence of the first seven Cyrillic letters has stayed the same since the first version of the alphabet.

The two sequences of seven Bulgarian words above are, first, my modernization and, second, the beginning of the traditional mnemonic for memorizing the alphabet.