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The Russian alphabet (ру́сский алфави́т, russkiy alfavit, or ру́сская а́збука, russkaya azbuka, more traditionally) is the script used to write the Russian language. It comes from the Cyrillic script, which was devised in the 9th century for the first Slavic literary language, Old Slavonic.
Jun 21, 2024 · Modern Russian has 32 letters (33, with inclusion of the soft sign—which is not, strictly speaking, a letter), Bulgarian 30, Serbian 30, and Ukrainian 32 (33). Modern Russian Cyrillic has also been adapted to many non-Slavic languages, sometimes with the addition of special letters.
The Russian alphabet consists of 33 letters: 10 vowels (а, е, ё, и, о, у, ы, э, ю, я), 21 consonants and 2 signs (hard and soft) that are not pronounced. The Russian alphabet uses the Cyrillic script.
In the table below is the full Russian alphabet in presented in dictionary order. It would also be useful to learn how to say the Russian letters.
It is the designated national script in various Slavic, Turkic, Mongolic, Uralic, Caucasian and Iranic -speaking countries in Southeastern Europe, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, North Asia, and East Asia, and used by many other minority languages.
May 21, 2024 · The Russian alphabet, or Cyrillic, is the first thing that you should learn before moving on to vocabulary or grammar practice. This guide will show you all 33 Russian letters, how they're pronounced and how you can learn them well.
First written: 10th century AD. Writing system: Cyrillic alphabet. Status: official language in Russian, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan and many other countries and territories. An introduction to Russian. Written Russian. Russian alphabet (русский алфавит) Russian phonology (Русская фонетика)
