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Russian distinguishes hard (unpalatalized or plain) and soft (palatalized) consonants (both phonetically and orthographically). Soft consonants, most of which are denoted by a superscript ʲ , are pronounced with the body of the tongue raised toward the hard palate , like the articulation of the y sound in yes .
The Cyrillic alphabet and Russian spelling generally employ fewer diacritics than those used in other European languages written with the Latin alphabet. The only diacritic, in the proper sense, is the acute accent ́ (Russian: знак ударения 'mark of stress'), which marks stress on a vowel, as it is done in Spanish and Greek.
The Russian spelling alphabet at right (PDF) The Russian spelling alphabet is a spelling alphabet (or "phonetic alphabet") for Russian, i.e. a set of names given to the alphabet letters for the purpose of unambiguous verbal spelling. It is used primarily by the Russian army, navy and the police.
On macOS, use the Unicode Hex Input keyboard layout, type option-0–2–5–2 for ɒ On macOS Yosemite 10.10.5 you can hold down a key for a second and a number of diacritics will appear above the cursor as clickable options. 'a' for example offers à á â ä æ ã å and ā. Enter them into wikitext as HTML character entities
Tse, from the Alphabet Book оf the Red Army Soldier (1921) Tse (Ц ц; italics: Ц ц or Ц ц ; italics: Ц ц ), also known as Ce , is a letter of the Cyrillic script . It commonly represents the voiceless alveolar affricate /t͡s/ , similar but not identical to the pronunciation of zz in "pi zz a" or ts in "ca ts" .
The Russian phonetic layout is especially suited for foreigners studying Russian and for many Russian-speakers living outside Russia. Some types of phonetic layouts, such as "Student" and "ЯВЕРТЫ", are not only widely used by Russian-speakers but also recommended by the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages .
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 31 December 2024. 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 ...
Unlike the Russian spelling system, ё is mandatory in the Cyrillic alphabet used by Dungan. In that Sinitic language, the е / ё distinction is crucial, as the former is used such as to write the syllable that would have the pinyin spelling of ye in Standard Chinese , and the latter is used for the syllable that appears as yao in pinyin.