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  1. 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.

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  2. Russian is written with a modern variant of the Cyrillic script.Russian spelling typically avoids arbitrary digraphs.Except for the use of hard and soft signs, which have no phonetic value in isolation but can follow a consonant letter, no phoneme is ever represented with more than one letter.

  3. Apr 7, 2023 · Russian/Alphabet. This is the latest reviewed version, checked on 7 April 2023. The Russian alphabet consists of 33 letters, each having upper- and lower-case forms. There are 20 consonants, 10 vowels, 1 so-called semivowel (Й/й), and 2 letters (Ъ/ъ and Ь/ь) that are not themselves pronounced but indicate how other letters should be ...

  4. Nov 24, 2018 · The Russian alphabet has 33 letters, out of which 10 are vowels and 21 are consonants. Two of the letters (Ь and Ъ) are used for changing sound of the preceding consonant. Note, that in the list below first is capital, then the small letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, then comes an explanation of how the sound should sound/feel like when ...

  5. Aug 27, 2022 · Before 1918 the Russian alphabet had 35, not 33 letters: Letters ё and й were officially not part of the Russian alphabet but were used. Letter і had the same reading as и and was replaced with и. Letter ѣ had the same reading as е and was replaced with е. Letter ѳ had the same reading as ф and was replaced with ф.

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    Italic
    (ipa)
    Scholarly
    А а
    А а
    [a]
    a
    Б б
    Б б
    [b]
    b
    В в
    В в
    [v]
    v
    Г г
    Г г
    [ɡ]
    g
  6. The pronunciation of unstressed vowels depends on the region. In the Central European part of Russia the unstressed Е and Я are pronounced as [i] and unstressed О is pronounced as [a]. Example: молоко (milk) [mala'ko]. The letter Ё is often written as Е except in cases of possible ambiguity: небо (sky) and нёбо (palate).

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  8. Russian Lesson 1. 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. Like "k" in kitten, "c" in cat. Like "ya" in yard. The table below gives you the normal printed version of the russian characters, and the cursive (italic) version of the character.

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