Russian is used in Russia and parts of the former Soviet Union such as Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Ukraine.
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Russian,
Russian transcription (IPA),
Russian transliteration (ALA-LC, BGN/PCGN, GOST, ISO 9:1995, Scientific/Scholarly, and UN),
1800s Russian,
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Russian using various constructed alphabets |
printed Russian: |
handwritten Russian: |
Language information at Wikipedia
Writing system information at Omniglot and Wikipedia
Russian transcription using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)
Russian transliterations using common "romanization" schemes
ALA-LC: |
BGN/PCGN: |
GOST: |
ISO 9:1995: |
Scientific/Scholarly: |
United Nations: |
Russian romanization information at Wikipedia
The Russian language, like others, has changed over time. This is what it was like in the 1800s:
Russian language history at Wikipedia
The СКАЗЬ alphabet was developed in 2012 as experiment to reinvent the writing system for Russian from scratch. Some letter forms were influenced by corresponding Cyrillic, Greek, and Latin letters.
Writing system information at Omniglot and LiveJournal (in Russian)
Matthew Whitaker created the Grand Alphabet to unify the writing systems of English, German and Russian.
See also English and German using the Grand Alphabet
Writing system information at Omniglot
The four essential travel phrases in English: 1) Where is my room? 2) Where is the beach? 3) Where is the bar? 4) Don't touch me there! |
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