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The document discusses the Russian alphabet. It notes that the Russian alphabet consists of 33 letters, including 10 vowels and 21 consonants. It traces the origins of the Cyrillic alphabet to the 9th century work of the Byzantine brothers Cyril and Methodius to create a writing system for Slavic languages. It was derived from their earlier Glagolitic alphabet. The Cyrillic alphabet became established as the written language of Russia in the 10th century and remains the basis of the modern Russian alphabet, with some reforms in the early 20th century.
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- 1. RussianAlphabets There are 33 letters in the RussianAlphabet: 10 vowels, 21 consonants, and 2 signs (, ). By ChalanthornC
- 2. A a Name of Letter: a Similar English Sound: ar in far Sample: 仂仄 1/33
- 3. 弍 Name of Letter: be Similar English Sound: like b in box Sample: 仆 2/33
- 4. 于 Name of Letter: ve Similar English Sound: like v in voice Sample: 亠亢从亳 3/33
- 5. 亞 Name of Letter: ge Similar English Sound: like g in go Sample: 舒 4/33
- 6. 亟 Name of Letter: de Similar English Sound: like d in day Sample: 仆 5/33
- 7. 亠 Name of Letter: ye Similar English Sound: like ye in yet or e in exit Sample: 从舒 6/33
- 8. Name of Letter: yo Similar English Sound: like yo in your Sample: 亢 7/33
- 9. 亢 Name of Letter: zhe Similar English Sound: like s in pleasure Sample: 亢从 8/33
- 10. 亰 Name of Letter: ze Similar English Sound: like z in zoo Sample: 从 9/33
- 11. 亳 Name of Letter: ee Similar English Sound: like ee in meet Sample: 10/33
- 12. 亶 Name of Letter: ee kratkoye (short i) Similar English Sound: like y in boy Sample: 亞 11/33
- 13. 从 Name of Letter: ka Similar English Sound: like k in key or c in cat Sample: 从舒 12/33
- 14. 仍 Name of Letter: el Similar English Sound: like l in lamp Sample: 仆 13/33
- 15. 仄 Name of Letter: em Similar English Sound: like m in man Sample: 仆舒 14/33
- 16. 仆 Name of Letter: en Similar English Sound: like n in note Sample: 15/33
- 17. 仂 Name of Letter: o Similar English Sound: like o in not Sample: 于仂亳 16/33
- 18. 仗 Name of Letter: pe Similar English Sound: like p in pet Sample: 亠 17/33
- 19. Name of Letter: er Similar English Sound: like r in rock (but rolled) Sample: 弍舒 18/33
- 20. 弌 Name of Letter: es Similar English Sound: like s in sun Sample: 仍 19/33
- 21. 丐 Name of Letter: te Similar English Sound: like t in table Sample: 仂 20/33
- 22. 丕 Name of Letter: oo Similar English Sound: like oo in moon Sample: 亟仂从舒 21/33
- 23. 个 Name of Letter: ef Similar English Sound: like f in food Sample: 从 22/33
- 24. 丱 Name of Letter: kha Similar English Sound: like ch in Scottish loch Sample: 23/33
- 25. 丶 Name of Letter: tse Similar English Sound: like ts in boots Sample: 24/33
- 26. 丼 Name of Letter: che Similar English Sound: like ch in chat Sample: 从舒 25/33
- 27. 丿 Name of Letter: sha Similar English Sound: sh in short Sample: 仗从舒 26/33
- 28. 乂 Name of Letter: shcha Similar English Sound: like sh_ch in fresh_cheese Sample: 从舒 27/33
- 29. Name of Letter: tviordiy znak (hard sign) Similar English Sound: has no sound Sample: has no sample 28/33
- 30. Name of Letter: ih* Similar English Sound: like i in ill Sample: has no sample 29/33* ih - "h" had been added to produce a more open sound, but is not pronounced as an English "h".
- 31. Name of Letter: myagkiy znak (soft sign) Similar English Sound: has no sound Sample: has no sample 30/33
- 32. 亅 Name of Letter: e Similar English Sound: like e in end Sample: 仆 31/33
- 33. 豫 Name of Letter: yoo Similar English Sound: like u in use Sample: 弍从舒 32/33
- 34. 亊 Name of Letter: ya Similar English Sound: like ya in yard Sample: 弍仍仂从仂 33/33
- 35. About Russian Alphabet Russian is an Eastern Slavonic language closely related to Ukrainian and Belorussian with about 277 million speakers in Russia and 30 other countries. TheCyrillic alphabet was introduced into Russia (Kievan Rus' ) at the time of its conversion to Christianity (988 AD).The alphabet, the Cyrillic script is named in honor of the Byzantine scholar and monk, Cyril (827-869 AD), who, together with his brother Methodius (826-885 AD), created the first Slavic writing system in the second half of the ninth century in order to translate the Bible and other Christian texts into the Slavic languages. Cyril and Methodius called their alphabet Glagolitsa, or the Glagolitic alphabet.The name comes from the Old Slavic word glagol鏑, 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.TheCyrillic alphabet was derived from Glagolitic by Cyrils pupils and named after him. Cyrillic letters are different from the Glagolitic ones and have lots in common with the Greek letters. Until the 17th century, the only written language in Russia was Church Slavonic. Civil Russian language started appearing in writing during the reign of Peter the Great (1672-1725).The dialect of Moscow was used as the basis for written Russian.The new civil alphabet was introduced by Peter the Great himself in order to write civil books, books on science and other texts not related to the church. Four letters were eliminated from the alphabet in a 1918 language reform. Since 1918 the alphabet remains unchanged.
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- #2: Russian AlphabetsThere are 33 letters in the Russian Alphabet: 10 vowels, 21 consonants, and 2 signs (, ).