The modern Russian alphabet (русский алфавит, transliteration: russkiy alfavit) is a variant of the Cyrillic alphabet. It was introduced into Kievan Rus' at the time of Vladimir the Great's conversion to Christianity.
The Russian alphabet is as follows:
Letter Ж, ж (zh) has more variants of writing than any other Russian letter.
The consonant letters represent both “hard” and “soft” (palatalised, represented in the IPA with a ‹ ʲ›) phonemes, depe...
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The modern Russian alphabet (русский алфавит, transliteration: russkiy alfavit) is a variant of the Cyrillic alphabet. It was introduced into Kievan Rus' at the time of Vladimir the Great's conversion to Christianity.
The Russian alphabet is as follows:
Letter Ж, ж (zh) has more variants of writing than any other Russian letter.
The consonant letters represent both “hard” and “soft” (palatalised, represented in the IPA with a ‹ ʲ›) phonemes, depending (with some exceptions) on whether the iotated or softening vowel letters follow. The transcriptions of the names of the letters attempt to reflect the reduction of non-stressed vowels. See Russian phonology for details.
Letter Л, л is commonly called эл [el] in modern Russian; эль [elʲ] is also used but is considered a little obsolete.
1. Until approximately 1900, mnemonic names inherited from Church Slavonic were used for the letters. They are given here in the pre-1918 orthography of the post-1708 civil alphabet.
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