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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.
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 many ...
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 ...
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.
Russian cursive is a variant of the Russian alphabet used for writing by hand. It is typically referred to as (ру́сский) рукопи́сный шрифт (rússky) rukopísny shrift, " (Russian) handwritten font". It is the handwritten form of the modern Russian Cyrillic script, used instead of the block letters seen in printed material.
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.