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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.
In the first variant of the Petrine Russian alphabet (1707–1708), the letter Ф was eliminated and Fita became the only way to represent /f/. Later (1710) the letter Ф (with the same etymological rule of spelling Ѳ and Ф) was restored and both letters co-existed until the 1918 spelling reform , when Fita was eliminated and replaced by the ...
The advent of the computer has had a great influence on the process of substitution ё with е for a counterintuitive reason: currently, the Russian alphabet contains 33 letters including ё , and codepage designers usually prefer to omit ё so that all Russian letters can be placed into sections of 16 letters (16, like other powers of 2, is ...
Ze (З з; italics: З з) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It commonly represents the voiced alveolar fricative /z/, like the pronunciation of z in "zebra". Ze is romanized using the Latin letter z . The shape of Ze is very similar to the Arabic numeral three 3 , and should not be confused with the Cyrillic letter E Э .
Zhe is used in the alphabets of all Slavic languages using a Cyrillic alphabet, and of most non-Slavic languages which use a Cyrillic alphabet. The position in the alphabet and the sound represented by the letter vary from language to language.
The Glagolitic alphabet contained only one letter for both yat ѣ and the Cyrillic iotated a ꙗ . [1] According to Kiril Mirchev, this meant that a after i in the Thessaloniki dialect (which served as a basis for Old Church Slavonic) mutated into a wide vowel that resembled or was the same as yat (/æ/). [2]
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Other modern orthographies for Slavic languages eliminated one of the two letters in alphabet reforms of the 19th or the 20th centuries. The Russian, Macedonian, Serbian, and Bulgarian languages now use only И , and Belarusian uses only І . However, the letter І was also used in Russian before the Bolshevik reform of 1918.