Alphabets

Pavel Yakovlev makes 'great scientific discovery' near his village in Yakutia.

The fifth grade student discovered the 'jewellery' decorated with ancient Turkic runic inscriptions.

The four words are believed to be in the Orkhon-Yenisei type script.

Worried by the declining use of their ancient script, councillors in the Serbian capital, Belgrade on Friday adopted a decision to reward companies that promote use of Cyrillic.

The adopted by-law offers a 5-per-cent discount to companies and people who rent city-owned offices if they write their names in Cyrillic.

The Ministry of Culture presented proposed changes on Thursday in a bid to counter decreasing use of the Cyrillic alphabet in the country, particularly among the younger generation.

A series of measures are being prepared with the goal of protecting the Serbian variant of the Cyrillic alphabet, the daily Vecernje Novosti writes.

A series of measures are being prepared with the goal of protecting the Serbian variant of the Cyrillic alphabet, the daily Vecernje Novosti writes.

The Serbian government is planning to set up a Council for the Serbian Language and introduce fines for public institutions and companies that do not use Cyrillic, as well as tax benefits to promote wider use of the script, state-owned newspaper Vecernje Novosti reported on Monday. 

The Belgrade city manager says he has discussed changing regulations in order to incentivize businesses to display their name in Cyrillic.

According to Goran Vesic, he spoke about it with "the appropriate ministry" - while such companies would be granted "discounts."

Bulgaria is celebrating on Tuesday the Day of Bulgarian Education and Culture and Slavonic Alphabet. Also known as Saints Cyril and Methodius' Day, May 24 commemorates the deed of Saints Cyril and Methodius, the two brothers who are credited with founding the Slavonic alphabet in the ninth century.

A Bulgarian architect has made a documentary about the Glagolitic alphabet, the oldest known Slavic alphabet, daily 24 reports.

Plamen Miryanov, 27, has shot the film inside a derelict church in northwestern Bulgaria and the Prohodna cave in Stara Planina.

The works to erect the Great Basilica in Pliska, the first capital of the first Bulgarian state founded in Southeast Europe, will receive additional funding, the government has decided.

The cabinet has thus increased the overall budget for construction to BGN 1.5 M in public money.