Belarusian alphabet

Belarusian alphabet
Script type	Alphabet
Time period	10th century to present (Old East Slavic); modern orthography: since 1918
Languages	Belarusian
Related scripts
Parent systems	Egyptian hieroglyphs[1] Phoenician alphabet Greek alphabet (partly Glagolitic alphabet) Early Cyrillic alphabet Belarusian alphabet
Sister systems	Belarusian Latin Belarusian Arabic Russian Ukrainian
ISO 15924
ISO 15924	Cyrl (220), ​Cyrillic
Unicode
Unicode alias	Cyrillic
Unicode range	subset of Cyrillic (U+0400...U+04FF)
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

The Belarusian alphabet is based on the Cyrillic script and is derived from the alphabet of Old Church Slavonic. It has existed in its modern form since 1918 and has 32 letters. See also Belarusian Latin alphabet and Belarusian Arabic alphabet.