Russian alphabet
Alphabet that uses letters from the Cyrillic script / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Russian alphabet (ру́сский алфави́т, russkiy alfavit,[lower-alpha 1] or ру́сская а́збука, russkaya azbuka,[lower-alpha 2] 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. Initially an old variant of the Bulgarian alphabet,[2] it became used in the Kievan Rusʹ since the 10th century to write what would become the modern Russian language.
Russian Cyrillic alphabet Русская кириллическая азбука | |
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Script type | |
Time period | 10th century (Old East Slavic) to present; modern orthography: 1918 |
Languages | Russian |
Related scripts | |
Parent systems | Egyptian hieroglyphs[1]
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Child systems | Mongolian Cyrillic alphabet |
ISO 15924 | |
ISO 15924 | Cyrl (220), Cyrillic |
Unicode | |
Unicode alias | Cyrillic |
subset of Cyrillic (U+0400...U+04FF) | |
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. |
The modern Russian alphabet consists of 33 letters: twenty consonants (⟨б⟩, ⟨в⟩, ⟨г⟩, ⟨д⟩, ⟨ж⟩, ⟨з⟩, ⟨к⟩, ⟨л⟩, ⟨м⟩, ⟨н⟩, ⟨п⟩, ⟨р⟩, ⟨с⟩, ⟨т⟩, ⟨ф⟩, ⟨х⟩, ⟨ц⟩, ⟨ч⟩, ⟨ш⟩, ⟨щ⟩), ten vowels (⟨а⟩, ⟨е⟩, ⟨ё⟩, ⟨и⟩, ⟨о⟩, ⟨у⟩, ⟨ы⟩, ⟨э⟩, ⟨ю⟩, ⟨я⟩), a semivowel / consonant (⟨й⟩), and two modifier letters or "signs" (⟨ъ⟩, ⟨ь⟩) that alter pronunciation of a preceding consonant or a following vowel.
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