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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 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.
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.
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.
The pre-reform letterforms, called 'Полуустав', were notably retained in Church Slavonic and are sometimes used in Russian even today, especially if one wants to give a text a 'Slavic' or 'archaic' feel. The alphabet used for the modern Church Slavonic language in Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic rites still resembles early ...
Jul 5, 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)
Aug 31, 2022 · The Russian alphabet contains 33 letters. It comprises 21 consonants, 10 vowels, and two modifier letters that have no sound – a hard sign and a soft sign. The lowercase versions of many letters appear somewhat different when italicised, so the following table provides both versions.
The Russian Alphabet. This page shows the Russian alphabet, how to pronounce the letter individually, and how the letter takes on different pronunciations within words. Note that Russian letters take on quite different shapes for capitals and italics. The best way to learn the letters is: Review the letters and their sounds on this page.
Cyril and Methodius called their alphabet Glagolitsa, or the Glagolitic alphabet. The name comes from the Old Slavic word glagolŭ, which means ‘sound’. The Glagolitic alphabet was used for Slavonic manuscripts for a relatively short period of time (no more than a century) before the development of the Cyrillic.
