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Peter Moylan wrote:

> On 04/05/24 20:13, Ross Clark wrote:

>> There was a Serbian restaurant at one time in Auckland (though
>> Croatians are much more numerous here), and the one time we ate
>> there, I remember seeing, pinned to the wall, a little poem about
>> "Наша Кириллица" (Our (dear?) Cyrillic alphabet). Googling that
>> phrase brings up a lot of Russian sites with similar sentiments.
>>
>> Looking further into it will show that while the above is basically
>> true, it is a lot more complicated.
>>
>> (i) They have several different feast days depending on which church
>> you ask.
>>
>> (ii) They invented two quite different alphabets -- Glagolitic, which
>>  looks a bit like Elvish; and Cyrillic, which is simpler and more
>> obviously based on Greek, and has lasted longer.
>>
>> (iii) And maybe they didn't invent them just like that...but such is
>> the way of writing systems.

> Yike! I see what you mean by Elvish. The users of Glagolitic must have
> had low reading speeds.

> Now that I've looked it up, I see that I've had a false belief for
> years. I had always believed that Cyrillic was invented by the Greek
> monk Cyril (and, perhaps, his partner Methodius). Now I see that Cyril
> introduced Glagolitic, and that others later modified his script to turn
> it into Cyrillic.

> That's a little surprising. You'd expect a Greek, faced with the problem
> of creating an alphabet for the Slavs, to come up with something similar
> to the Greek alphabet. (With, of course, additions to deal with the fact
> that the Greek alphabet is too small.) Indeed, Cyrillic does show
> obvious derivation from Greek, but Glagolitic does not.

For derivations see the following link. (Th/F)ita is obvious.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glagolitic_script#Characteristics

Regards, ULF