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  2. Russian spelling alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The Russian spelling alphabet is a spelling alphabet (or "phonetic alphabet") for Russian, i.e. a set of names given to the alphabet letters for the purpose of unambiguous verbal spelling. It is used primarily by the Russian army, navy and the police. The large majority of the identifiers are common individual first names, with a handful of ...

  3. Russian alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The Russian alphabet (ру́сский алфави́т, russkiy alfavit, [ a ] or ру́сская а́збука, russkaya azbuka, [ b ] more traditionally) is the script used to write the Russian language. It is derived from the Cyrillic script, which was modified in the 9th century to capture accurately the phonology of the first Slavic ...

  4. Russian orthography - Wikipedia

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    Russian spelling, which is mostly phonemic in practice, is a mix of morphological and phonetic principles, with a few etymological or historic forms, and occasional grammatical differentiation. The punctuation, originally based on Byzantine Greek , was in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries reformulated on the models of French and German ...

  5. Reforms of Russian orthography - Wikipedia

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    Russian – and later Soviet – railroads operated locomotives with designations of "І", "Ѵ" and "Ѳ". (Although the letter Ѵ was not mentioned in the spelling reform, [8] [9] contrary to the statement in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, [10] it had already become very rare prior to the revolution.) Despite the altered orthography, the series ...

  6. List of English words of Russian origin - Wikipedia

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    Balalaika [3] (Russian: балала́йка, [bəlɐˈlajkə]) A triangle-shaped mandolin -like musical instrument with three strings. Balaclava (Russian: Балаклава) (Tatar origin) A knitted hat that covers the face, also known as a ski mask in the US and elsewhere. First used in the British army during the Crimean war of 1853–56.

  7. Vowel reduction in Russian - Wikipedia

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    General description. The five Russian vowels /u, i, e, a, o/ in unstressed position show two levels of reduction: [1] The first-degree reduction in the first pretonic position (immediately before the stress). The second-degree reduction in positions other than the first pretonic position. The allophonic result of the reduction is also heavily ...

  8. Russian phonology - Wikipedia

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    Most descriptions of Russian describe it as having five vowel phonemes, though there is some dispute over whether a sixth vowel, / ɨ /, is separate from /i/. Russian has 34 consonants, which can be divided into two types: hard (твёрдый [ˈtvʲordɨj] ⓘ) or plain. soft (мягкий [ˈmʲæxʲkʲɪj] ⓘ) or palatalized.

  9. Google Neural Machine Translation - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Google Neural Machine Translation (GNMT) was a neural machine translation (NMT) system developed by Google and introduced in November 2016 that used an artificial neural network to increase fluency and accuracy in Google Translate. [1][2][3][4] The neural network consisted of two main blocks, an encoder and a decoder, both of LSTM ...