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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]
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.
"A Little Song About Bears" (Russian: Песенка о медведях) is a song written by Leonid Derbenyov and composed by Aleksandr Zatsepin for the 1966 Soviet film Kidnapping, Caucasian Style, in which it was sung by the main heroine (played by Natalya Varley and dubbed for the song by Aida Vedishcheva). [1] [2] In Russia, "Pesenka o ...
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.
Russia’s defense ministry has not explicitly commented on the use of the letter in its current context, but did post on Instagram last week that the pro-war symbol stems from the Russian phrase ...
Ve, from the Alphabet Book оf the Red Army soldier (1921) Ve (В в; italics: В в) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It commonly represents the voiced labiodental fricative /v/, like v in "vase". It can also represent /ʋ/. The capital letter Ve looks the same as the capital Latin letter B but is pronounced differently.