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The Cyrillic script (/ s ɪ ˈ r ɪ l ɪ k / ⓘ sih-RIL-ik), Slavonic script or simply Slavic script 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 ...
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 it as the official alphabet for their national languages. About half of them are in Russia. Cyrillic is one of the most-used writing systems in the world.
In Russian, the letter has little use in loanwords and orthographic transcriptions of foreign words. A notable exception is the use of ля Russian pronunciation: to transcribe /la/, mostly from Romance languages, Polish, German and Arabic.
The source language or writing system (English, French, Arabic, Hindi, Kazakh in Latin alphabet, Chinese, Japanese, etc.), The destination language or writing system (Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Kazakh in Cyrillic, etc.), the goals of the systems: to render occasional foreign words (mostly personal and place names) for use in newspapers or ...
The romanization of the Russian language (the transliteration of Russian text from the Cyrillic script into the Latin script), aside from its primary use for including Russian names and words in text written in a Latin alphabet, is also essential for computer users to input Russian text who either do not have a keyboard or word processor set up for inputting Cyrillic, or else are not capable ...
Foreign words sometimes use Е rather than Э, even if it is pronounced e instead of ye. In addition, Ё is often replaced by Е; this makes Е even more common. 'T' appears about 9.1% 3 А: 7.64% 'A' appears about 8.2% 4 И: 7.09% 'O' appears about 7.5% 5 Н: 6.78% The most common consonant in the Russian alphabet. 'I' appears about 7% 6 Т: 6 ...
The ў ((CYRILLIC) SHORT U) was proposed by Russian linguist Pyotr Bezsonov in 1870. The Belarusian alphabet, in its modern form, has formally existed since the adoption of Branislaw Tarashkyevich 's Belarusian grammar , for use in Soviet schools, in 1918 [ citation needed ] Several slightly different versions had been used informally.
A ukase written in the 17th-century Russian chancery cursive. The Russian (and Cyrillic in general) cursive was developed during the 18th century on the base of the earlier Cyrillic tachygraphic writing (ско́ропись, skoropis, "rapid or running script"), which in turn was the 14th–17th-century chancery hand of the earlier Cyrillic bookhand scripts (called ustav and poluustav).