Why do Eastern European countries use different alphabets?

Most Eastern European countries share the same Slavic ethnicity, language, and heritage. However, Eastern European nations do not all share the same writing system. The fact that Eastern Europe is divided between Cyrillic script and Latin script sparks the question: Why do Eastern European countries use different alphabets?

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[borisminchev]

Romania started using Cyrillic because it was part of the first bulgarian empire which is the birthplace of the alphabet

[nikolainikolov]

Fun fact, apart from the Cyrillic alphabet, which was created in the Bulgarian capital Preslav, by order of the Bulgarian Tsar Simeon by the Bulgarian scribes Saints Klimen and Nahum.
The Gothic script was also created in Bulgaria by the Gothic bishop Wulfila (311 – 383) in the 4th century

[stefanbudimirovic]

For me is weird to write in Latin alphabet, we are taught both alphabets in school, but after you finish the school, you choose what alphabet you would use. I know a lot of people that can't write cursive Latin, because they didn't continued to using it after the school. So in my country people mostly write in Cyrillic.

[dayanbalevski]

Did you literally make a 4:25 minute video about the history of the cyrillic script, and you never said the word "Bulgaria" once, and you kept flashing the Russian Alphabet everywhere?

This has got to be the worst video about cyrillic script I have ever seen... this has to be a joke.

[Seventeenth]

This video is wrong, Poland and Czechia never used cyrylics, in fact first manuscripts of those languages were in latin before cyrylics were even created.

[mihanich]

1) Cyrillic was never used in Poland or Czechia, so there was no "transition" to the latin alphabet.
2) calling Cyrillic alphabet "Russian" is like calling the Latin alphabet "English"

[spaghettiking]

I think it's mistaken to represent the Cyrillic alphabet with the "Russian Cyrillic Alphabet" image as you do in the video, because (1) you show it in places where it's misattributed, e.g. Serbo-Croatian doesn't use the Russian alphabet, it uses the its own Cyrillic script which is different to the Russian one in some letters; (2) because the Cyrillic script did not start in Russia and is more accurately identified with Bulgaria, where it was created, a fact which is not mentioned in the video. Otherwise nice video, I hope that countries keep using the Cyrillic script because it's really cool.

[hay__den]

YouTube algorithm blessed me with this channel

[YGorillAY]

You say Russian, but the Cyrillic is actually Bulgarian

[dElChapuliun]

As a romanian, I was wondering why we don't use the cyrillic alphabet anymore, as most crosses and church images are still written in old cyrillic alphabet. This was a very nice video.

[СергейАфанасенко-ъш]

All Slavic languages are very close to each other even now, so in 8-9 th centuries they were completely mutually intelligible, that's why Byzantines wanted to create one liturgical language for all of the Slavs. Cyril and Methodius made Old Church Slavonic on the base of South Slavic dialects, there are disputes whether Cyril and Methodius made the Cyrillic alphabet or only Glagolic(Glagolica), but still it has origination in the Balkans, where Greeks and Slavs lived very close to each other. Cyrillic alphabet was common for Orthodox Slavs back in the days, but now on the base of it there are many Cyrillic alphabets

[hipositive]

The role of Tsar Simeon the Great and the Bulgarian Empire in the development and spread of the Cyrillic alphabet is a significant point of national pride for Bulgaria. It underscores the country's historical contribution to the cultural and linguistic development of the Slavic world. This contribution has sometimes been overshadowed by the later adoption and adaptation of the Cyrillic script by other Slavic nations, including Russia, leading to differing national narratives about the script's origins and development.
Let that sink in...

[jameslongstreet]

Fun fact: Before Christendom, what would become the three Scandinavian kingdoms had their own alphabets: The runes, which was a Germanic, heathen alphabet. But they were dropped for the Latin one when the countries where christianized. Very good video 👍

[lliammauricewhite]

Best video yet, I already see improvement in the first few videos

[Nova-Franconia]

Honestly, have always been more western/central in culture, over the last 1000 years, compared to their East Slavic cousins. Serbo-Croatian writes both Latin & Cyrillic, because they were influenced by the Austrians and the Bulgarians before them, Poles adopted it (along with the Baltic languages) because of close proximity/intermingling with Germans (also religion and the fact adopting a modern script and getting good relations with developed countries boosts trade and therefore boosts their own development), and Czechs, or Bohemians/Moravians, have always been a big player in the HRE, and have always had contact with the Germans.

If the German government wasn’t so keen on destroying our heritage and values, I’d even say they share a lot of things culturally with us, but that would almost be an insult nowadays. Poles and Czechs are honestly very similar (not 1 to 1 though) to what Germans would be without our sh!t government, the majority of people here are after all still somewhat sane but are forced to drown their complaints with alcohol, because the loud LGBTQ and Leftist minorities hold enough power over social media to ruin you otherwise.

[spaghettiqueen]

It's also interesting how Japan would take on the Roman alphabet (Romanji). Could you make a video about how that alphabet developed???

[wholesand]

I heard Kazakh is gonna switch to Latin script.
I am wondering how that'll look.

[TheDmitry]

The Cyrill and Methodius works for life is like a bird flying upon all slavic lands and NOT inscriptions on boundary fences divided us. When was the last time you looked at the sky to SEE it?

[ahmedsaleh]

I have an idea. Why does burkina faso exist?

[ВаняЛеонтьев-об]

The author got it all mixed up or wasn't even interested in the topic. In the 20-30s, there were attempts to Romanize the languages of the RSFSR, but they were afraid to make mistakes. The Azerbaijani alphabet has always been in Latin, they wanted to translate it into Cyrillic before the revolution, but the Bolsheviks did everything the other way around.