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The following multigraphs are used in 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, Turkic, Mongolic, Uralic, Caucasian and Iranic-speaking co ...
. The palatalized consonants of
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and other languages written as C- are mostly predictable and therefore not included here unless they are irregular. Likewise, in the
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, there are numerous other predictable multigraphs that are not included. These include doubled letters (or whole digraphs) that indicate ' tense' ('strong') consonants and long vowels; sequences with , , for
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consonants; and sequences with or for ejective consonants or pharyngealized consonants and vowels.
Tatar The Tatars ()Tatar
in the Collins English Dictionary
is an umbrella term for different
also has discontinuous digraphs. See Cyrillic digraphs for examples.


А

: * Archi: : * Archi: : * Dungan: : * Chechen: * Ingush: * Tabasaran: : * Archi:


Г

: * Abaza: * Archi: * Lezgian: : * Tabasaran: : * Adyghe: * Kabardian: * Ossetian: * Also found in several other languages where is used for labialization (though this is a predictable effect of assimilation, and therefore does not result in a true digraph). : * Aleut language (Bering dialect): : * Abaza: * Adyghe: * Aghul: * Archi: * Avar: * Crimean Tatar: * Dargwa: * Kabardian: * Karachay-Balkar: * Kumyk: * Lezgian: * Ossetian: * Tabasaran: *
Tatar The Tatars ()Tatar
in the Collins English Dictionary
is an umbrella term for different
: word-final : * Abaza: * Archi: * Lezgian: : * Adyghe: * Kabardian: * Ossetian: : * Abaza: : * Archi: : * Archi: : * Abaza: * Abkhaz: * Aghul: * Archi: * Avar: * Dargwa: * Kumyk: * Lezgian: * Tabasaran: : * Abkhaz: : * Abaza: * Aghul: * Archi: * Avar: * Chechen: * Dargwa: * Ingush: : * Abaza:


Ӷ

: * Abkhaz: : * Abkhaz:


Д

* Abaza: * Adyghe: * Aghul: * Belarusian: * Bulgarian: * Crimean Tatar: * Dargwa: * Kabardian: * Karachay-Balkar: (Karachay); (Balkar) * Komi: * Lezgian: * Ossetian: *
Russian Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including: *Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...
: * Tabasaran: * Ukrainian: * Abaza: * Abaza: * Abaza: * Adyghe: * Belarusian: * Bulgarian: * Dargwa: * Kabardian: * Komi: * Lezgian: * Ossetian: *
Russian Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including: *Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...
: * Tabasaran: * Ukrainian: : * Adyghe: : *
Russian Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including: *Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...
: (though this is a predictable effect of assimilation, and therefore not a true digraph) : * Yakut: : * Abkhaz:


Е

* Archi: * Archi: * Archi:


Ё

: * Dungan: : * Chechen:


Ж

* Abaza: * Archi: * Tabasaran: : *
Russian Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including: *Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...
: usually not a digraph, and pronounced (palatalized to before and palatalizing vowels). However, in the word дождь ("rain") and its derivatives, the conservative Moscow pronunciation uses the sound (devoiced to in the nominative singular of дождь). The unpalatalized pronunciation in these words (unlike words with or ) is uncommon and considered nonstandard. : *
Russian Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including: *Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...
: usually not a digraph, and pronounced . However, the conservative Moscow pronunciation uses the sound (though this is becoming increasingly outdated). : *
Russian Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including: *Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...
: (though this is a predictable effect of assimilation, and therefore not a true digraph) : * Adyghe: : * Adyghe: : * Abaza: * Abkhaz: * Adyghe: * Kabardian: : * Abkhaz:


З

: * Archi: * Lezgian: *
Russian Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including: *Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...
: (regular) or (conservative Moscow pronunciation) (though this is a predictable effect of assimilation, and therefore not a true digraph) : *
Russian Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including: *Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...
: (though this is a predictable effect of assimilation, and therefore not a true digraph)


Ӡ

: * Abkhaz:


И

: * Archi: : * Archi: : * Chechen: * Mongolian: : * Archi:


Й

: *
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:


К

: * Abaza: * Archi: * Lezgian: or : * Aghul: * Archi: * Avar: * Chechen: * Tabasaran: : * Archi: : * Chechen: : * Archi: : * Archi: : * Archi: : * Adyghe: * Kabardian: * Ossetian: or * Also found in several other languages where is used for labialization (though this is a predictable effect of assimilation, and therefore does not result in a true digraph). : * Chechen * Ingush * Kabardian: * Kabardian: : * Abaza: * Adyghe: * Aghul: * Archi: * Avar: * Chechen: * Crimean Tatar: * Dargwa: * Ingush: * Kabardian: * Karachay-Balkar: * Kumyk: or * Lezgian: * Ossetian: * Tabasaran: *
Tatar The Tatars ()Tatar
in the Collins English Dictionary
is an umbrella term for different
: : * Abaza: * Archi: * Lezgian: : * Adyghe: * Kabardian: * Ossetian: : * Abaza: : * Archi: : * Archi: : * Abaza: * Abkhaz: * Aghul: * Archi: or * Avar: * Dargwa: * Lezgian: * Tabasaran: : * Archi: * Lezgian: : * Abkhaz: : * Abaza: * Adyghe: or * Aghul: * Archi: * Avar: * Chechen: * Dargwa: * Ingush or * Kabardian: or * Lezgian: * Tabasaran: : * Abaza: * Archi: * Lezgian: : * Avar: : * Adyghe: * Kabardian: : * Abaza: : *
Itelmen The Itelmens ( Itelmen: Итәнмән, russian: Ительмены) are an indigenous ethnic group of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia. The Itelmen language is distantly related to Chukchi and Koryak, forming the Chukotko-Kamchatkan langu ...
: * Nivkh:


Қ

: * Abkhaz: : * Abkhaz:


Ҟ

: * Abkhaz: : * Abkhaz:


Ӄ

: *
Itelmen The Itelmens ( Itelmen: Итәнмән, russian: Ительмены) are an indigenous ethnic group of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia. The Itelmen language is distantly related to Chukchi and Koryak, forming the Chukotko-Kamchatkan langu ...
: * Nivkh:


Л

: * Archi: : * Archi: : *
Moksha ''Moksha'' (; sa, मोक्ष, '), also called ''vimoksha'', ''vimukti'' and ''mukti'', is a term in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism for various forms of emancipation, enlightenment, liberation, and release. In its soteriologic ...
: * Mongolian: : * Adyghe: * Archi: * Avar: * Kabardian: : * Archi: : * Avar: : * Abaza: : * Abaza: * Adyghe: * Archi: * Avar: * Kabardian: : * Archi:


Н

: * Karachay-Balkar: * Kumyk: or * Uzbek: : * Crimean Tatar: : * Yakut: * In the cyrillization of Chinese it is used for a word-final , equivalent to
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.


О

: * Chechen: * Ingush: : * Selkup: : * Dungan : * Archi: : * Archi: : * Chechen: * Kumyk: * Nogai: : * Archi:


П

* Aghul: * Archi: * Chechen * Tabasaran: : * Ossetian: : * Abaza: * Adyghe: * Aghul: * Archi: * Chechen: * Dargwa: * Ingush * Kabardian: * Lezgian: * Tabasaran: : * Adyghe: : *
Itelmen The Itelmens ( Itelmen: Итәнмән, russian: Ительмены) are an indigenous ethnic group of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia. The Itelmen language is distantly related to Chukchi and Koryak, forming the Chukotko-Kamchatkan langu ...
: * Nivkh:


Р

: *
Moksha ''Moksha'' (; sa, मोक्ष, '), also called ''vimoksha'', ''vimukti'' and ''mukti'', is a term in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism for various forms of emancipation, enlightenment, liberation, and release. In its soteriologic ...
: : * Chechen: * Ingush


С

: * Archi: * Lezgian: : *
Russian Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including: *Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...
: (though this is a predictable effect of assimilation, and therefore not a true digraph) : * Aghul: * Archi: * Avar: * Chechen: : *
Russian Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including: *Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...
: (though this is a predictable effect of assimilation, and therefore not a true digraph)


Т

: * Archi: * Lezgian: or : * Abaza: : * Aghul: * Archi: * Chechen: * Tabasaran: : *
Russian Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including: *Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...
: (though this is a predictable effect of assimilation, and therefore not a true digraph) : * Abaza: * Komi: : * Ossetian: : * Abkhaz: : * Abaza: * Adyghe: * Aghul: * Archi: * Avar: * Chechen: * Dargwa: * Ingush * Kabardian: * Lezgian: * Tabasaran: : * Lezgian: : * Adyghe: : *
Itelmen The Itelmens ( Itelmen: Итәнмән, russian: Ительмены) are an indigenous ethnic group of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia. The Itelmen language is distantly related to Chukchi and Koryak, forming the Chukotko-Kamchatkan langu ...
: * Nivkh:


Ҭ

: * Abkhaz:


У

: * Chechen: * Ingush: : * Archi: : * Archi: : * Aghul: * Chechen: * Kumyk: * Lezgian: * Nogai: * Tabasaran: : * Chechen: : * Archi:


Ф

: * Aghul: : * Abaza: * Kabardian:


Ү

: * Turkmen: (until 1993, in that year the Turkmen alphabet became
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)


Х

: * Abaza: * Archi: * Lezgian: : * Kabardian: * Ossetian: : * Aghul: * Archi: * Avar: : * Archi: : * Archi: : * Archi: : * Abaza: * Adyghe: * Aghul: * Archi: * Avar: * Dargwa: * Kabardian: * Lezgian: * Ossetian: * Tabasaran: : * Abaza: * Archi: * Lezgian: : * Adyghe: * Kabardian: * Ossetian: : * Archi: : * Archi: : * Abaza: * Abkhaz: * Adyghe: * Aghul: * Avar: * Chechen: * Dargwa: * Ingush: * Kabardian: * Lezgian: * Tabasaran: : * Lezgian: : * Aghul: * Avar: : * Archi: : * Archi: : * Abkhaz: : * Abaza: * Aghul: * Archi: * Avar: * Chechen: * Dargwa: * Ingush : * Abaza:


Ҳ

: * Abkhaz:


Ц

: * Archi: * Lezgian: or : * In the cyrillization of Chinese it is used for and , equivalent to
pinyin Hanyu Pinyin (), often shortened to just pinyin, is the official romanization system for Standard Chinese, Standard Mandarin Chinese in China, and to some extent, in Singapore and Malaysia. It is often used to teach Mandarin, normally writte ...
and, before an iotated vowel, . : * Adyghe: : * Aghul: * Avar: * Tabasaran: : * Archi: : * Ossetian: : * Abkhaz: : * Abaza: * Aghul: * Archi: * Avar: * Chechen: * Dargwa: * Ingush * Kabardian: * Lezgian: * Tabasaran: : * Lezgian: : * Avar:


Ҵ

: * Abkhaz:


Ч

: * Abaza: * Archi: * Tabasaran: : * In the cyrillization of Chinese it is used for , equivalent to
pinyin Hanyu Pinyin (), often shortened to just pinyin, is the official romanization system for Standard Chinese, Standard Mandarin Chinese in China, and to some extent, in Singapore and Malaysia. It is often used to teach Mandarin, normally writte ...
. : * Aghul: * Avar: * Tabasaran: : * Adyghe: * Ossetian: : * Abaza: * Adyghe: * Aghul: * Archi: * Avar: * Chechen: * Dargwa: * Ingush * Lezgian: * Tabasaran: : * Abaza: * Archi: : * Avar: : *
Itelmen The Itelmens ( Itelmen: Итәнмән, russian: Ительмены) are an indigenous ethnic group of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia. The Itelmen language is distantly related to Chukchi and Koryak, forming the Chukotko-Kamchatkan langu ...
:


Ш

: * Abaza: * Archi: * Tabasaran: : *
Russian Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including: *Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...
: (though this is a predictable effect of assimilation, and therefore not a true digraph) : * Adyghe: : * Adyghe: : * Abkhaz: : * Abkhaz: : * Abaza: * Adyghe: : * Adyghe:


Щ

: * Archi: : * Kabardian:


Џ

: * Abkhaz:


Э

: * Dungan: : * Archi: : * Archi: : * Archi:


Ю

: * In the cyrillization of Chinese it is used for , equivalent to
pinyin Hanyu Pinyin (), often shortened to just pinyin, is the official romanization system for Standard Chinese, Standard Mandarin Chinese in China, and to some extent, in Singapore and Malaysia. It is often used to teach Mandarin, normally writte ...
. : * Chechen:


Я

: * Dungan: : * Chechen: * Ingush


Ӏ

: * Adyghe: * Kabardian:


See also

* List of Cyrillic letters *
Tetragraph A tetragraph (from the el, τετρα-, ''tetra-'', "four" and γράφω, ''gráphō'', "write") is a sequence of four letters used to represent a single sound (phoneme), or a combination of sounds, that do not necessarily correspond to the indi ...
*
Pentagraph A pentagraph (from the el, πέντε, ''pénte'', "five" and γράφω, ''gráphō'', "write") is a sequence of five letters used to represent a single sound (phoneme), or a combination of sounds, that do not correspond to the individual values ...


References

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