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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.
Cyrillic characters go in their native order, with a "window" for pseudographic characters. ISO/IEC 8859-5 – 8-bit Cyrillic character encoding established by International Organization for Standardization; KOI8-R – 8-bit native Russian character encoding. Invented in the USSR for use on Soviet clones of American IBM and DEC computers.
The Cyrillic alphabet on birch bark document № 591 from ancient Novgorod ( Russia ). Dated to 1025–1050 AD. A more complete early Cyrillic abecedary (on the top half of the left side), this one written by the boy Onfim between 1240 and 1260 AD (birch bark document № 199).
The early Cyrillic alphabet was developed in the 9th century AD and replaced the earlier Glagolitic script developed by the theologians Cyril and Methodius. It is the basis of alphabets used in various languages, past and present, Slavic origin, and non-Slavic languages influenced by Russian. As of 2011, around 252 million people in Eurasia use ...
Old Church Slavonic, Ukrainian, Russian, Romanian as variant of Ѕ Ꙃ ꙃ Dzelo Early Cyrillic alphabet (as variant of, and replaced by Ѕ) Ӡ ӡ: Abkhazian Dze Abkhaz, Uilta Ꚃ ꚃ Dzwe Abkhaz (1909—1926, replaced by Ӡә) Ꙁ ꙁ Zemlya Early Cyrillic alphabet (as variant of, and replaced by З) Ԅ ԅ: Komi Zje Komi (1919—1940) Ԇ ԇ ...
Baba Yaga being used as an example for the Cyrillic letter Б, in Alexandre Benois ' ABC-Book. Baba Yaga is an enigmatic or ambiguous character from Slavic folklore (or one of a trio of sisters of the same name) who has two opposite roles. In some motifs she is described as a repulsive or ferocious-looking old woman who fries and eats children ...
The reform removed pairs of completely homophonous graphemes from the Russian alphabet (i.e., Ѣ and Е; Ѳ and Ф; and the trio of И, І and Ѵ), bringing the alphabet closer to the Russian language's actual phonological system. Criticism 1919 White Army anti-Bolshevik poster encouraging people to enlist as volunteers.
In the 1920s and 1930s, a wave of Latinization of the writing of non-Russian peoples swept across the country, and Cyrillic was reduced to the absolute. The territory of the USSR, where the Cyrillic alphabet (Russian) was used, was already a kind of wedge, because Latin was used in the north and east of Siberia (Komi, Yakutia).