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I am reading an engraving published in 1951 by the Broude Brothers. It contains a weird thing shaped like the letter Tje with a breve (Ᲊ̆): What exactly is it? And what is it called? The letter Tje ...
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In English and French, words are oftentimes "cut" when spoken. For example, in English we might say "Watcha doin'" instead of "What are you doing". Likewise, in French we ...
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The capitalized forms would likely be indistinguishable and the lowercase forms are identical according to this resource (as noted on Pinterest). Naturally there must be an actual difference when a ...
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Does anyone have a link to an official Russian or American/UK (government) source of some charts/tables that standardize transliteration of Cyrillic (Russian in particular) letters to Roman (English) ...
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я обнаружил, что в кириллице не хватает буквы - пары для ы, как я является парой для а. в русском языке такой буквы не нужно, но вот в татарском, например, такая буква нужна: например, если к слову "...
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г normally sounds like a g, such as где. Sometimes though it can sound like a v, such as нового. How do I tell which one is the correct one?
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In Latin cursive, we differentiate lowercase a a from lowercase O with the stroke in the middle of O. However, this stroke does not exist in Russian cursive. I see that the right border of A is ...
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In Russian cursive, there is some ambiguity from the fact that several lowercase cursive letters consist (entirely or in part) of the Latin cursive letter i without the dot (or a half of the cursive ...
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In The Netherlands, we learn to write Latin characters in cursive in school, but most adults write block letters in practice. My experience is that in other countries using the Latin alphabet, most ...
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I am just a happy beginner in Russian language, but to my ears Х sounds closer to H than Г. Does anyone know why words like Horizon (Горизонт) choose Г instead? Is there some historic explanation ...
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Equivalent question: What Russian letters won't equal 1? From: the homophonic group: a mathematical diversion --> This is an exercise from Michael Artin's Algebra on, well, abstract algebra. In this ...
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What were the names of the Russian letters и and i in the pre-1918 Russian alphabet?
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I've noticed the absence of the dotted i (І/і) as well as yi (Ї/ї) in the Russian Cyrillic alphabet. Why are these two letters not shared when they're vowels that are fundamental in Ukrainian?
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I have this comic book in Russian that uses characters I don't know from my Russian learning materials. Please see my image. There are: small m и with line on top g mirrored s Which 'standard' ...
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I have been studying Russian recently and I have come across a problem that I have been trying to resolve for some time now which involves the softening of consonants. I understand that there are ...
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