Numerals
Each letter had a numeric value also, inherited from the corresponding Greek letter.A titlo over a sequence of letters indicated their use as a number;
usually this was accompanied by a dot on either side of the letter.
In numerals, the ones place was to the left of the tens place,
the reverse of the order used in modern Arabic numerals.
҂ Thousands are formed using a special symbol, ҂ (U+0482),
which was attached to the lower left corner of the numeral.
Many fonts display this symbol incorrectly as being in line with the letters instead of subscripted below and to the left of them.
Titlos were also used to form abbreviations, especially of nomina sacra;
this was done by writing the first and last letter of the abbreviated word along with the word's grammatical endings, then placing a titlo above it.
Later manuscripts made increasing use of a different style of abbreviation,
in which some of the left-out letters were superscripted above the abbreviation and covered with a pokrytie diacritic.
Several diacritics, adopted from Polytonic Greek orthography, were also used,
but were seemingly redundant (these may not appear correctly in all web browsers; they are supposed to be directly above the letter, not off to its upper right):
ӓ trema / diaeresis (U+0308)
а̀ varia (grave accent), indicating stress on the last syllable (U+0300)
а́ oksia (acute accent), indicating a stressed syllable (Unicode U+0301)
а҃ titlo, indicating abbreviations, or letters used as numerals (U+0483)
а҄ kamora (circumflex accent), indicating palatalization (U+0484);
in later Church slavonic, it disambiguates plurals from homophonous singulars.
а҅ dasia or dasy pneuma, rough breathing mark (U+0485)
а҆ psili / zvatel'tse / psilon pneuma, soft breathing mark (U+0486).
signals a word-initial vowel, at least in later Church Slavonic.
а҆̀ zvatel'tse + varia is called apostrof.
а҆́ zvatel'tse + oksia is called iso.
Punctuation systems in early Cyrillic manuscripts were primitive: there was no space between words and no upper and lower case, and punctuation marks were used inconsistently in all manuscripts.
· ano teleia (U+0387), a middle dot used to separate phrases, words, or parts of words
. full stop, used in the same way
։ armenian full stop (U+0589), resembling a colon, used in the same way
჻ georgian paragraph separator (U+10FB), used to mark off larger divisions
⁖ triangular colon (U+2056, added in Unicode 4.1), used to mark off larger divisions
⁘ diamond colon (U+2058, added in Unicode 4.1), used to mark off larger divisions
⁙ quintuple colon (U+2059, added in Unicode 4.1), used to mark off larger divisions
; greek question mark (U+037E), similar to a semicolon
- Some of these marks are also used in Glagolitic script. -
Used only in modern texts
, comma (U+002C)
. full stop (U+002E)
! exclamation mark (U+0021)