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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 14 February 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 ...
Zhe with diaeresis (Ӝ ӝ; italics: Ӝ ӝ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. [1] Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter Zhe (Ж ж Ж ж). Zhe with diaeresis is used only in the alphabet of the Udmurt language, [2] where it represents the voiced postalveolar affricate /d͡ʒ/, like the pronunciation of j in "jam". [3]
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]
The digraph is known as Cyrillic "uk", and today's Cyrillic letter u originates from its simplified form. The letter's traditional name, izhitsa (ижица), is explained as a diminutive either of the word иго ( igo , "yoke"), due to the letter's shape, or of иже ( izhe , "which"), the name of the main Cyrillic and Glagolitic letters for ...
The Cyrillic script (/ s ɪ ˈ r ɪ l ɪ k / ⓘ sih-RIH-lick) is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia.It is the designated national script in various Slavic, Turkic, Mongolic, Uralic, Caucasian and Iranic-speaking countries in Southeastern Europe, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, North Asia, and East Asia, and used by many other minority languages.
Some Ukrainian scholars argue that it is shape of beetle, since Zhe is the first phoneme in the Slavic word жукъ (žuk), meaning "beetle". [1] In the Early Cyrillic alphabet the name of Zhe was живѣтє (živěte), meaning "live" (imperative). Zhe was not used in the Cyrillic numeral system.
Letter А, page from Elisabeth Boehm's Azbuka. А (А а; italics: A ɑ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It commonly represents an open central unrounded vowel /ä/, halfway between the pronunciation of a in "cat" and "father". The Cyrillic letter А is romanized using the Latin letter A.
The details vary by author, and depend on which letters are available for the language of the text. For instance, in a work written in Ukrainian , г may be used for [ ɣ ] (the voiced equivalent of х ), whereas in Russian texts, г is used for [ ɡ ] .