Celebrating Cyrillic/Slavonic Tradition

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Greetings, comrades! We've talked in previous years about May 24, which is a huge holiday for about a quarter billion people around the world, those using the Cyrillic alphabet. While it may seem a bit alien to people in the West who aren't familiar with it, it's actually very similar to the Latin script, because they both emerged from the Greek alphabet (in fact, Cyrillic letters are even closer to Greek than the Latin ones, and even their order in the alphabet is much more similar). Most people in the West associate this alphabet with Russia, I suppose, although it was neither created there nor was it originally spread from there - it's just that Russia is the biggest and most influential Slavonic country at the moment, hence the association (and all the jokes and memes, particularly ones related to the so called Faux Cyrillic). There are some variations of the script varying from country to country, serving the specific phonetic needs of each country, but in general, the basis of the alphabet is shared by all nations who use it.

Anyway; the story behind the creation and adoption of the Cyrillic alphabet has been discussed at great length here, so I'm not going to occupy you with it again. You can read it in more detail under that link and in the links provided there. This is just a short greeting to all folks of Slavonic origin and background, and everyone using or familiar with the Cyrillic alphabet in general, and of course to those appreciating Slavonic culture and tradition. To all: NAZDRAVE / CHEERS!