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Numerous Cyrillic alphabets are based on the Cyrillic script. It is the basis of alphabets used in various languages, past and present, in parts of Southeastern Europe and Northern Eurasia, especially those of Slavic origin, and non-Slavic languages influenced by Russian. As of , around million people in Eurasia use it as the official alphabet for their national languages. About half of them are in Russia.

The Palladius System is the Russian official standard for transcribing Chinese into Russian , with variants existing for Ukrainian , Belarusian , Macedonian , and other languages that use the Cyrillic alphabet. It was created by Palladius Kafarov , a Russian sinologist and monk who spent thirty years in China in the nineteenth century. In composites, coda ng is transcribed нъ when the following syllable starts with a vowel. This table establishes correspondence between the Ukrainian Palladius system together with the two Romanization systems most commonly used in English-speaking countries: Pinyin and Wade—Giles.

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This page provides basic information about the Cyrillic script and its use for the Russian language. It is not authoritative, peer-reviewed information — these are just notes I have gathered or copied from various places as I learned. For character-specific details see the Cyrillic character notes.