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1 day ago · It is the basis of alphabets used in various languages, past and present, Slavic origin, and non-Slavic languages influenced by Russian. As of 2011, around 252 million people in Eurasia use it as the official alphabet for their national languages. About half of them are in Russia. Cyrillic is one of the most-used writing systems in the world.
4 days ago · Russian has vowel reduction in unstressed syllables. This feature also occurs in a minority of other Slavic languages like Belarusian and Bulgarian and is also found in English, but not in most other Slavic languages, such as Czech, Polish, most varieties of Serbo-Croatian, and Ukrainian.
5 days ago · It was also used for other languages, but between the 18th and 20th centuries was mostly replaced by the modern Cyrillic script, which is used for some Slavic languages (such as Russian), and for East European and Asian languages that have experienced a great amount of Russian cultural influence.
9 hours ago · The Ukrainian language ( українська мова, ukrainska mova, IPA: [ʊkrɐˈjinʲsʲkɐ ˈmɔʋɐ]) is an East Slavic language of the Indo-European language family spoken primarily in Ukraine. It is the native language of a majority of Ukrainians . Written Ukrainian uses the Ukrainian alphabet, a variant of the Cyrillic script.
May 21, 2024 · If you’ve never studied Slavic languages before, then Russian isn’t an easy language to learn by any means. In fact, the United States Department of State lists Russian as a Category III language—i.e., a “hard” language. That means on average, it takes native English speakers about 1,100 class hours to pick it up.
5 days ago · Interslavic ( Medžuslovjansky / Меджусловјанскы) is a pan-Slavic auxiliary language. Its purpose is to facilitate communication between speakers of various Slavic languages, as well as to allow people who do not speak a Slavic language to communicate with Slavic speakers by being mutually intelligible with most, if not all ...
May 23, 2024 · Cyrillic is the third official alphabet of the European Union, following Latin and Greek, since 1 January 2007, when Bulgaria became a member. The Cyrillic alphabet is named after Saint Cyril, a 9th century Greek missionary to Slavic peoples, who helped develop the writing system. The Cyrillic alphabet is based on the Greek alphabet, with other ...
