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  2. Russian cursive - Wikipedia

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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).

  3. Cyrillic script - Wikipedia

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    The Cyrillic script (/ s ɪ ˈ r ɪ l ɪ k / ⓘ sih-RIH-lick) 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 other minority languages.

  4. Russian alphabet - Wikipedia

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    Although Russian word stress is often unpredictable and can fall on different syllables in different forms of the same word, the diacritic accent is used only in dictionaries, children's books, resources for foreign-language learners, the defining entry (in bold) in articles on Russian Wikipedia, or on minimal pairs distinguished only by stress ...

  5. List of Cyrillic letters - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 6 February 2025. There are 4 pending revisions awaiting review. 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 ...

  6. Cyrillic alphabets - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Cursive - Wikipedia

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    Cursive is a style of penmanship in which the symbols of the language are written in a conjoined, or flowing, manner, generally for the purpose of making writing faster.. This writing style is distinct from "print-script" using block letters, in which the letters of a word are unconnect

  8. Should schools still teach cursive in the digital age?

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    Cursive lessons forge important pathways that benefit all types of learning “To the human brain, the act of handwriting is very different from punching letters on a keyboard. Handwriting ...

  9. Reforms of Russian orthography - Wikipedia

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    Civil Russian font from middle 18th and beginning of 19th centuries, without a yo (ё) or short i (й) Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, miscellaneous adjustments were made ad hoc, as the Russian literary language came to assume its modern and highly standardized form.