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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).
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.
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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
This letter replaced koppa as the numeral for 90 after about 1300. [3] Ш ш: ша: ša š sh [ʃ] Glagolitic Sha Ⱎ Щ щ: ща: šta št sht [ʃt] Glagolitic Shta Ⱋ This letter varied in pronunciation from region to region; it may have originally represented the reflexes of [tʲ]. [3] It was sometimes replaced by the digraph шт. [3]
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.
The (Russian-Ukrainian-Belarusian-Bulgarian) cursive form of capital De looks like Latin D as the printed version is not comfortable enough to be written quickly. The Serbian cursive form is closer to the shape of a numeral "2" (identical to the form sometimes used for uppercase cursive Latin Q); this form is unknown in Russia.