The Cyrillic alphabet (or azbuka, from the old name of the first letters) is an alphabet used to write six natural Slavic languages (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian) and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe. * archaic letters † used in non-Slavic languages Middle Bronze Age 19-15th c. BC Proto-Canaanite 14th c. BC Ugaritic 13th c. BC Phoenician 11th c. BC Samarit ...

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Main article: Cyrillic characters in Unicode. In Unicode, the Cyrillic block extends from U+0400 to U+052F. The characters in the range U+0400 to U+045F are basically the characters from ISO 8859-5 moved upward by 864 positions. The characters in the range U+0460 to U+0489 are historic letters, not used now. The characters in the range U+048A to U+052F are additional letters for various languages that are written with Cyrillic script. Unicode does not include accented Cyrillic letters, but they can be combined by adding U+0301 ...

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Sounds are indicated using IPA. These are only approximate indicators. While these languages by and large have phonemic orthographies, there are occasional exceptions—for example, Russian его (meaning him/his), which is pronounced /jevɔ/ instead of /jeɡɔ/. Note that spellings of names may vary, especially Y/J/I, but also GH/G/H and ZH/J. Cyrillic alphabet - Slavic languagesSee also:

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Bases Base 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13,16, 20, 24, 26, 27, 30, 32, 36, 60, 64 Cyrillic numerals was a numbering system derived from the Cyrillic alphabet, used by South and East Slavic peoples. The system was used in Russia as late as the 1700s when Peter the Great replaced it with the Hindu-Arabic numeral system. The system was quasi-decimal, based on the Ionian numeral system and written with the corresponding graphemes of the Cyrillic alphabet. A separate letter was assigne ...

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Ye, or E (Е, е), is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. It looks exactly like the Latin letter E. In Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian, and Ukrainian, it is called E, and represents the vowel /e/ or /ɛ/. In Belarusian and Russian, it is called Ye and represents a palatalizing vowel, that is, it modifies the letter before it but is otherwise no differ ...

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Belarusian (беларуская мова) is the language of the Belarusian people. It is one of the three East Slavic languages and is spoken in and around Belarus. It shares some vocabulary with the languages of the neighboring Slavic nations, most notably with Ukrainian, Polish, Russian and Slovakian. It is also known as "Belarusan", "Byelorussian", "Belorussian", or "Belarusian". The word "Byelorussian" is an adjective derived from the transliteration of the Russian name of the country (Byelorussia). It was in predo ...

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• Belarusian language - Phonetics
• Belarusian language - Vocabulary
• Belarusian language - Comparison
• Belarusian language - Nouns nazounik
• Belarusian language - Pronouns zajmiennik

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Che (Ч, ч) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. It represents the affricate /ʧ/ or /ʨ/ (like the ch in "change"). Category: Cyrillic letters Other related archivesCyrillic alphabet, Cyrillic letters, affricate

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Yu (Ю, ю) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the iotated vowel /ju/. In common with many Cyrillic letters, it was derived from a digraph, being a ligature of Izhe (then І) or Izhei (then Н, both now И) and Uk (Ѹ, no longer in the alphabet). Other related archivesCyrillic alphabet, Izhe, Uk, digraph, iotated, ligature

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Resh is the twentieth letter of many Semitic alphabets, including Phoenician, Hebrew, and Aramaic. The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Rho (Ρ), Latin R, and the equivalent in the Cyrillic alphabet. Other related archivesAramaic, Cyrillic alphabet, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Phoenician, R, Rho, Semitic

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А (А, а) is the first letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. It arose directly from the Greek letter alpha. In the Early Cyrillic Alphabet its name was azǔ and it had numerical value of one. In many languages that use Cyrillic, such as Russian, Serbian, Macedonian and Bulgarian, it is pronounced as /a/. It may also represent /ɑ/ and / ...

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Ve (В, в) is the third letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the sound [v]. It looks exactly as Latin letter B but is pronounced differently. This letter and б are derived from Greek beta (Β, β), which was, evidently, already pronounced [v] in Greek by the time the Cyrillic alphabet was created. The old name for вIncluding:

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Ya (Я, я) is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the iotated vowel /ja/ (IPA). It is the 33rd and last letter of the Russian alphabet. In Russian language, the word "Я" is the personal pronoun "I". A popular saying based on this fact, "Ya is the last letter in the alphabet", is used to teach children modesty and humility. Interestingly, in Early Cyrillic alphabet the name "Az" of the first letter ("A") stood for "I". Even more interestingly, in Bulgarian language 'Az' means 'I ...

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Ė ė is a letter that is used when transliterating the cyrillic letter Э э into the latin alphabet. Other related archivescyrillic letter, Э э

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Zhe (Ж, ж) is the letter of Cyrillic alphabet which represents the voiced postalveolar fricative /ʒ/ (listen), similar to the "s" in the English word "treasure". Zhe is the 7th letter of the Bulgarian and Belarusian alphabets, the 8th letter in the Macedonian, Russian and Serbian alphabets, and the 9th in the Ukrainian alphabet. It is also found in most non-Slavic languages written in the Cyrillic script, representing either Including:

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Yi (Ї, ї) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, used in the Ukrainian language. It represents the iotated vowel sound /ji/. Other related archivesCyrillic alphabet, Ukrainian language, iotated

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Ye (Є, є) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, used in the Ukrainian language to represent the iotated vowel sound /je/. Other related archivesCyrillic alphabet, Ukrainian language, iotated

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Yo (Ё, ё) is the seventh letter of the Russian Cyrillic alphabet, invented to replace the recklessly confused е and o for soft o relatively soon after the introduction of the Civil Alphabet (the Grazhdanka). It is used in the Russian and Belarusian languages, along with many of the Caucasian and Turkic languages which use or used the Cyrillic alphabet, but not in many of the other Slavic languages. It is spoken as an iotated or palatalized O ("yo", IPA [jo] ...

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Zayin or Zain is the seventh letter of many Semitic alphabets, including Phoenician, Hebrew, and Aramaic. The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Zeta (Ζ), Latin Z, and the equivalent in the Cyrillic alphabet. In modern Hebrew, zayin, as well as being the letter, is also slang for penis. Other related archivesAramaic, Cyrillic alphabet, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Phoenician, Semitic, Z, Zeta, penis

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Yery (Ы, ы) is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet. It represents the tense intermediate vowel (IPA /ɨ/) in the Belarusian and Russian alphabets. A similar sound is represented by И in the Ukrainian alphabet. Like many Cyrillic letters, originally the letter Yery was formed from a ligature — between Yer (Ъ) and Izhe (then І) or Izhei (then Н, now И). In ancient manuscripts, it is almost without exception found as ЪІ or ЪН. Once the letters Ъ and Ь subsequently

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