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The Russian alphabet ( ру́сский алфави́т, russkiy alfavit, [a] or ру́сская а́збука, russkaya azbuka, [b] 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.
Modern Cyrillic script. This chart shows most of the Cyrillic letters currently in use, plus ones that are no longer used, with their names. Languages written with the Cyrillic alphabet. The Cyrillic alphabet has been adapted to write more than 120 different languages, mainly in Russia, Central Asia and Eastern Europe.
There are 33 letters in the modern Russian alphabet. 10 letters are vowels and 21 letters are consonants. 2 letters are hard and soft signs. Too much? The old Russian alphabet before the Cyrillic script had even more > 49 letters. Be brave! 😊
This alphabet uses Cyrillic script and consists of 33 letters, some of which are the same as and some of which are different from the Roman alphabet. This straightforward guide will show you each Russian letter and its pronunciation as well as give you some tips for learning the alphabet thoroughly. Contents. The Russian Alphabet in Cursive.
The Cyrillic alphabet was based on the Greek uncial writing of the 9th century It originally had a total of 43 letters; the two Hebrew letters tzade and shin were transformed into the Cyrillic letters for the sounds ch, sh, and shch. The modern forms of this alphabet have fewer letters.
In turn, the Cyrillic alphabet was developed at the Preslav Literary School in the First Bulgarian Empire in the 9th century. It was later formalized by a Greek monk St. Cyril. The contemporary Russian alphabet consists of 33 letters, some of which were borrowed from Greek and Hebrew.
The Cyrillic script, Slavonic script, or the Slavic script, is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. 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.
