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Chaplino Dialect
The Chaplino dialect (also known as Chaplinski dialect, Chaplinski Yupik, Eskimo Uŋaziq and Chaplinski language) is a dialect of the Central Siberian Yupik language spoken by the indigenous Eskimo people along the coast of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug in the Russian Far East, in the villages of Novoye Chaplino ("New Chaplino"), Provideniya, Uelkal and Sireniki. The Chaplino dialect is named after the village of (also known as "''Old Chaplino''"; native name is "Уӈазиӄ" (Uŋaziq), from ''уӈаӄ'' "whisker" + suffix ''-зиӄ/-сиӄ''). The Chaplino dialect is spoken by the majority of Russian Yuits. The Chaplino dialect is close in lexicon and grammar In linguistics, the grammar of a natural language is its set of structure, structural constraints on speakers' or writers' composition of clause (linguistics), clauses, phrases, and words. The term can also refer to the study of such constraint ... to that of the St. Lawrence Island Yupik dialect (''"Sivuqaghmiistun"'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eighth of Earth's inhabitable landmass. Russia extends across eleven time zones and shares land boundaries with fourteen countries, more than any other country but China. It is the world's ninth-most populous country and Europe's most populous country, with a population of 146 million people. The country's capital and largest city is Moscow, the largest city entirely within Europe. Saint Petersburg is Russia's cultural centre and second-largest city. Other major urban areas include Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod, and Kazan. The East Slavs emerged as a recognisable group in Europe between the 3rd and 8th centuries CE. Kievan Rus' arose as a state in the 9th century, and in 988, it adopted Orthodox Christianity from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Be (Cyrillic)
Be (Б italics: ''Б '') is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It commonly represents the voiced bilabial plosive , like the English pronunciation of in "ball". It should not be confused with the Cyrillic letter Ve (В в), which is shaped like Latin capital letter B but represents the voiced labiodental fricative . The Cyrillic letter Б (Be) is romanized using the Latin letter . History The Cyrillic letters Be and Ve (В в) were both derived from the Greek letter Beta (Β β). In the Early Cyrillic alphabet the name of the letter Be was (''buky/''), meaning "letter". In the Cyrillic numeral system, the letter Be had no numeric value because the letter Ve inherited the Greek letter Beta's numeric value. Form The Russian small letter (be) is similar (but not identical) in shape to the digit 6. Its lowercase form also somewhat resembles a lowercase letter B ("b"), the letter to which it corresponds in the Latin alphabet. After all, the lowerc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El (Cyrillic)
El (Л л; italics: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. El commonly represents the alveolar lateral approximant . In Slavic languages it may be either palatalized or slightly velarized; see below. Allography In some typefaces the Cyrillic letter El has a grapheme which may be confused with the Cyrillic letter Pe (Пп) Note that Pe has a straight left leg, without the hook. An alternative form of El (Ʌ ʌ) is more common in Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, and Serbian. History The Cyrillic letter El was derived from the Greek letter lambda (Λ λ). In the Early Cyrillic alphabet its name was (''ljudije''), meaning "people". In the Cyrillic numeral system, Л had a value of 30. Pronunciation As used in the alphabets of various languages, El represents the following sounds: * alveolar lateral approximant , like the pronunciation of in "lip" * palatalized alveolar lateral approximant * velarized alveolar lateral approximant , like the pronun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ka With Hook
Ka with hook (Ӄ ӄ; italics: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It is formed from the Cyrillic letter Ka (К к) by the addition of a hook. Ka with hook is widely used in the alphabets of Siberia and the Russian Far East: Chukchi, Koryak, Alyutor, Itelmen, Yukaghir, Yupik, Aleut, Nivkh, Ket, Tofalar and Selkup languages, where it represents the voiceless uvular plosive . It has been sometimes used in the Khanty The Khanty ( Khanty: ханти, ''hanti''), also known in older literature as Ostyaks (russian: остяки) are a Ugric indigenous people, living in Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug, a region historically known as " Yugra" in Russia, togeth ... language as a substitute for Cyrillic letter Ka with descender, Қ қ, which also stands for . It was also used in the old Abkhaz and the Ossetian alphabets. Computing codes See also Other Cyrillic letters used to write the sound : *Ҡ ҡ : Cyrillic letter Bashkir Qa *Ԟ ԟ : Cyrillic le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ka (Cyrillic)
Ka (К к; italics: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It commonly represents the voiceless velar plosive /k/, like the pronunciation of ⟨k⟩ in "king" or "kick". History The Cyrillic letter Ka was derived from the Greek letter Kappa (Κ κ). In the Early Cyrillic alphabet its name was (''kako''), meaning "as". In the Cyrillic numeral system, Ka had a value of 20. Form The Cyrillic letter Ka looks very similar, and corresponds to the Latin letter K. In many fonts, Cyrillic Ka is differentiated from its Latin and Greek counterparts by drawing one or both of its diagonal spurs with curved instead of straight. Also in some fonts the lowercase form of Ka has the vertical bar elongated above x-height, resembling the Latin lowercase k. Usage In Russian, the letter Ka represents the plain voiceless velar plosive or the palatalized one ; for example, the word ''короткий'' (''"short"'') contains both the kinds: . The palatalized variant is pronounced when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Short I
Short I (Й й; italics: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It is made of the Cyrillic letter И with a breve. The short I represents the palatal approximant like the pronunciation of in ''yesterday''. Depending on the romanization system in use and the Slavic language that is under examination, it can be romanized as , , or . For more details, see romanization of Russian, romanization of Ukrainian, romanization of Belarusian and romanization of Bulgarian. History Active use of (or, rather, the breve over ) began around the 15th and 16th centuries. Since the middle of the 17th century, the differentiation between and is obligatory in the Russian variant of Church Slavonic orthography (used for the Russian language as well). During the alphabet reforms of Peter I, all diacritic marks were removed from the Russian writing system, but shortly after his death, in 1735, the distinction between and was restored. was not officially considered a separate letter of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I (Cyrillic)
И и (И и; italics: ) is a letter used in almost all Cyrillic alphabets with the exception of Belarusian. It commonly represents the close front unrounded vowel , like the pronunciation of in "machine", or the near-close near-front unrounded vowel , like the pronunciation of in "bin". History Because the Cyrillic letter І was derived from the Greek letter Eta (Η η), the Cyrillic had the shape of up to the 13th century. The name of the Cyrillic letter І in the Early Cyrillic alphabet was (''iže''), meaning "which". In the Cyrillic numeral system, the Cyrillic letter І had a value of 8, corresponding to the Greek letter Eta. In the Early Cyrillic alphabet, there was little or no distinction between the letter and the letter , the latter of which was derived from the Greek letter Iota (Ι ι). Both remained in the alphabetical repertoire because they represented different numbers in the Cyrillic numeral system: eight and ten. In New Church Slav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ze (Cyrillic)
Ze (З з; italics: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It commonly represents the voiced alveolar fricative , like the pronunciation of in "zebra". ''Ze is romanized using the Latin letter'' . The shape of Ze is very similar to the Arabic numeral three , and should not be confused with the Cyrillic letter E . History and shape Ze is derived from the Greek letter Zeta (Ζ ζ). In the Early Cyrillic alphabet its name was (''zemlja''), meaning "earth". The shape of the letter originally looked similar to a Greek or Latin letter Z with a tail on the bottom (). Though a majuscule form of this variant () is encoded in Unicode, historically it was only used as caseless or lowercase.Ponomar Project. ''The Complete Character Range for Slavonic Script in Unicode.'' In the Cyrillic numeral system, Zemlja had a value of 7. Medieval Cyrillic manuscripts and Church Slavonic printed books have two variant forms of the letter Zemlja: з and . Only the form was used in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhe (Cyrillic)
Zhe (Ж ж; italics: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It commonly represents the voiced retroflex sibilant ( listen). It is also often used with D ( Д) to approximate the sound in English of the Latin letter J with a ДЖ combo. Zhe is romanized as or . History It is not known how the character for Zhe was derived. No similar letter exists in Greek, Latin or any other alphabet of the time, though there is some graphic similarity with its Glagolitic counterpart Zhivete (Image: ) which represents the same sound. However, the origin of Zhivete, like that of most Glagolitic letters, is unclear. One possibility is that it was formed from two connecting Hebrew letters Shin , the bottom one inverted. Zhe may also be derived from the Coptic letter ⟨Ϫϫ⟩, supported by the phonetic value ( represents the sound /d͡ʒ/ in Coptic) and shape of the letter, which the Glagolitic counterpart Zhivete resembles even more closely. It may be a ligature, formed from co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yo (Cyrillic)
Yo, Jo, Io, or just Ë (Ё ё; italics: ; ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. In Unicode, the letter is named CYRILLIC CAPITAL/SMALL LETTER IO. In English, the letter Yo is romanized using the Latin '' ë'' (according to the ALA–LC and British Standards), ''ë'' (''yë'' word-initially) (BGN/PCGN) or ''yo/jo'' ( orthographic transcription) for Russian, and as ''i͡o'' (ALA–LC), ''yo'' (BGN/PCGN), or ''ë'' (BSI) for Belarusian. In international systems, Yo is romanized as ''ë'' (ISO 9). It was derived from the Cyrillic letter Ye (Е е). Pronunciation : ''This section describes the pronunciation in Russian and Belarusian. Other languages may have subtle differences.'' The letter is a stressed syllable in the overwhelming majority of Russian and Belarusian words. In Russian, unstressed occurs only in compound numerals and a few derived terms, wherein it is considered an exception. It is a so-called iotated vowel. In initial or post-vocalic position, it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ye (Cyrillic)
Ye, Je, or Ie (Е е; italics: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. In some languages this letter is called E. It looks like another version of E (Cyrillic). It commonly represents the vowel or , like the pronunciation of in "yes". Ye is romanized using the Latin letter E for Bulgarian, Serbian, Macedonian, Ukrainian and Rusyn, and occasionally Russian (Озеро Байкал, Ozero Baykal), Je for Belarusian (Заслаўе, Zaslaŭje), Ye for Russian (Европа, Yevropa), and Ie occasionally for Russian (Днепр, Dniepr) and Belarusian (Маладзе́чна, Maladziečna). It was derived from the Greek letter epsilon (Ε ε). Usage Russian and Belarusian *At the beginning of a word or after a vowel, Ye represents the phonemic combination (phonetically or ), like the pronunciation of in "yes". Ukrainian uses the letter (see Ukrainian Ye) in this way. *Following a consonant, Ye indicates that the consonant is palatalized, and represents the vowel (p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
De (Cyrillic)
De (Д д; italics: ''Д д'') is a letter of the Cyrillic script. De commonly represents the voiced dental stop , like the pronunciation of in "door". De is romanised using the Latin letter D. History The Cyrillic letter De was derived from the Greek letter Delta (Δ δ). In the Early Cyrillic alphabet its name was (''dobro''), meaning "good". In the Cyrillic numeral system, De had a value of 4. Form The major graphic difference between De and its modern Greek equivalent lies in the two descenders ("feet") below the lower corners of the Cyrillic letter. The descenders were borrowed from a Byzantine uncial shape of uppercase Delta. De, like the Cyrillic letter El, has two typographical variants: an older variant where its top is pointed (like Delta), and a modern one (first used in mid-19th-century fonts) where it is square. Nowadays, almost all books and magazines are printed with fonts with the second variant of the letter; the first one is rather sty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
