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Ъ used to be a very common letter in the Russian alphabet. This is because before the 1918 reform, any word ending with a non-palatalized consonant was written with a final Ъ — e.g., pre-1918 вотъ vs. post-reform вот. The reform eliminated the use of Ъ in this context, leaving it the least common letter in the Russian alphabet.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 29 January 2025. See also: List of Cyrillic multigraphs Main articles: Cyrillic script, Cyrillic alphabets, and Early Cyrillic alphabet This article contains special characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. This is a list of letters of the ...
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The letter Ѫ was also used for the same purpose alongside its normal usage. In 1899, both letters replaced in verb conjugations by Я and А in all cases as part of the new Ivanchov Orthography. The Cyrillic alphabet was originally developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 9th – 10th century AD at the Preslav Literary School. [2] [3]
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.
The advent of the computer has had a great influence on the process of substitution ё with е for a counterintuitive reason: currently, the Russian alphabet contains 33 letters including ё , and codepage designers usually prefer to omit ё so that all Russian letters can be placed into sections of 16 letters (16, like other powers of 2, is ...
This letter was written only after a consonant; in all other positions, ꙗ was used instead. [3] An exceptional document is Pages of Undolski, where ѣ is used instead of ꙗ. Ꙗ ꙗ ꙗ ja ja i͡a [jæː] І-А ligature This letter was probably not present in the original Cyrillic alphabet. [1] Ѥ ѥ: ѥ: je je i͡e [jɛ] І-Є ligature
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER IO 0435 0308: Used in Russian, Belarusian, Rusyn, Mongolian, and others. Considered a separate letter, after the letter Е, but not collated separately from Е in Russian. 0402: Ђ: CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER DJE 0452: ђ: CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER DJE Used in Serbian. Invented as a new letter, placed between Д and Е. 0403: Ѓ