This is a list of
letters
Letter, letters, or literature may refer to:
Characters typeface
* Letter (alphabet), a character representing one or more of the sounds used in speech; any of the symbols of an alphabet.
* Letterform, the graphic form of a letter of the alphabe ...
of the
Cyrillic script
The Cyrillic script ( ), Slavonic script or the Slavic script, is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic languages, Slavic, Turkic languages, Turkic, Mongolic languages, ...
. The definition of a Cyrillic letter for this list is a character encoded in the
Unicode standard
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that a has
script property of 'Cyrillic' and the
general category
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of 'Letter'. An overview of the distribution of Cyrillic letters in Unicode is given in
Cyrillic script in Unicode
As of Unicode version 15.0 Cyrillic script is encoded across several blocks:
* CyrillicU+0400–U+04FF 256 characters
* Cyrillic SupplementU+0500–U+052F 48 characters
* Cyrillic Extended-AU+2DE0–U+2DFF 32 characters
* Cyrillic Extended-BU+A ...
.
Letters contained in the Russian alphabet
Letters contained in the Russian alphabet.
Letters unused in Russian
Extensions
Letters with diacritics
Ligatures
Position Cyrillic letters in alphabet
Variants of
Cyrillic
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, fam2 = Proto-Sinaitic
, fam3 = Phoenician
, fam4 = G ...
are used by the
writing system
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s of many languages, especially languages used in the former Soviet Union. The tables below list the Cyrillic letters in use in various modern languages and show the primary sounds they represent in them (see the articles on the specific languages for more detail). Letter forms with a combined diacritic which are not considered separate letters in any language (notably vowels with accent marks which are sometimes used in some languages to indicate stress and/or tone) are excluded from the tables, with the exception of ѐ and ѝ. The highlighted letters are those of the basic (original) Cyrillic alphabet; archaic letters no longer in use in any language today are not listed.
For letters not on this list, see
Template:Infobox Cyrillic letter.
Summary table
See also
*
Cyrillic script
The Cyrillic script ( ), Slavonic script or the Slavic script, is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic languages, Slavic, Turkic languages, Turkic, Mongolic languages, ...
*
Cyrillic digraphs
The Cyrillic script family contains many specially treated two-letter combinations, or digraphs, but few of these are used in Slavic languages. In a few alphabets, trigraphs and even the occasional tetragraph or pentagraph are used.
In early ...
*
Cyrillic characters in Unicode
As of Unicode version 15.0 Cyrillic script is encoded across several blocks:
* CyrillicU+0400–U+04FF 256 characters
* Cyrillic SupplementU+0500–U+052F 48 characters
* Cyrillic Extended-AU+2DE0–U+2DFF 32 characters
* Cyrillic Extended-BU+A ...
*
Languages using Cyrillic
Numerous Cyrillic alphabets are based on the Cyrillic script. The early Cyrillic alphabet was developed in the 9th century AD and replaced the earlier Glagolitic script developed by the Byzantine theologians Cyril and Methodius. It is the ba ...
*
List of Latin letters
This is a list of letters of the Latin script. The definition of a Latin-script letter for this list is a character encoded in the Unicode Standard that has a script property of 'Latin' and the general category of 'Letter'. An overview of the ...
Notes
* ѐ and ѝ – considered variants of е and и, respectively, not separate letters – are included here because they are used in some South Slavic languages for preventing ambiguity and have been assigned separate Unicode code points.
* The letters з́ and с́ only appear in the
Montenegrin alphabet, which is otherwise identical to the Serbian alphabet and was not given a separate column.
* In normal Russian texts ё is written without the dots, that is it appears as е. The dots are sometimes added to prevent ambiguity or in children books.
* In the indicated languages, ъ indicates that the preceding consonant is not
iotated
In Slavic languages, iotation (, ) is a form of palatalization that occurs when a consonant comes into contact with a palatal approximant from the succeeding phoneme. The is represented by iota (ι) in the Cyrillic alphabet and the Greek alphab ...
.
* In Ossetian, ъ is combined with consonants to indicate new phonemes, most commonly
ejective consonant
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s.
* In Chechen, ь is combined with both consonants and vowels to indicate various new phonemes.
* Only used in borrowings, not in native words.
*There are many languages that use two or more scripts, for example
Latin
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or
Arabic
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.
*In Belarusian and Ukrainian there is an apostrophe to indicate de-palatalization of the preceding consonant.
*Azerbaijani has the apostrophe as a letter.
*Nenets has the apostrophe and double apostrophe as letters.
References
External links
Cyrillic Alphabets of Slavic Languagesreview of Cyrillic charsets in Slavic Languages.
Unicode collation chartsincluding Cyrillic letters, sorted by shape
{{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Cyrillic Letters