Russian Pronunciation: «Alphabet and Pronunciation»

Alphabet and Pronunciation in Russian

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Hello everybody,

In today's lesson you will learn some useful vocabulary about ¨ALPHABET AND PRONUNCIATION¨ in Russian.

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PRONUNCIATION ENGLISH	LETTERS IN RUSSIAN	PRONUNCIATION BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE
ah	A	a
beh	Б	b
veh	В	ve
geh	Г	gue
deh	Д	de
yeh	Е (strong) / (tônica)	iê
ih	E	i
yeh	E (at the end) / (no final)	iê
iô	Ë	iô
zheh	Ж	je
zeh	З	ze
i	И	i
i	Й	i
kah	К	ca
ehl	Л	el
ehm	М	em
ehn	Н	en
oh	О (strong) / (tônica)	o
ah	O	a
peh	П	pe
her	Р	ér
ehs	С	és
teh	Т	te
ou	У	u
ehf	Ф	éf
Hah	Х	rah
tseh	Ц	tsé
cheh	Ч	tche
shah	Ш	cha
shcheh	Щ	chtché
no sound	Ъ	sem som
uh	Ы	â
no sound	Ь	sem som
eh	Э	é
you	Ю	iú
yah	Я	iá
syah	CЯ	siá
sah	CЯ (at the end) / (no final)	sá

Russian alphabet

Russian is a Slavic language, such as Polish or Czech, written with the Cyrillic alphabet, inspired by the Greek alphabet.

Caps	А	Б	В	Г	Д	Е	Ё	Ж	З	И	Й	К	Л	М	Н	О	П	Р	С	Т	У	Ф	Х	Ц	Ч	Ш	Щ	Ъ	Ы	Ь	Э	Ю	Я
Minisculs	а	б	в	г	д	е	ё	ж	з	и	й	к	л	м	н	о	п	р	с	т	у	ф	х	ц	ч	ш	щ	ъ	ы	ь	э	ю	я
Name	а	бэ	вэ	гэ	дэ	е	ё	жэ	зэ	и	и краткое	ка	эл, эль	эм	эн	о	пэ	эр	эс	тэ	у	эф	ха	цэ	че	ша	ща	твёрдый знак	ы	мягкий знак	э	ю	я
Prononciation	/a/	/b/, /bʲ/	/v/, /vʲ/	/ɡ/, /gʲ/	/d/, /dʲ/	/je/, / ʲe/, /e/	/jo/, / ʲɵ/	/ʐ/	/z/, /zʲ/	/i/, / ʲi/,, /ɨ/	/j/	/k/, /kʲ/	/l/, /lʲ/	/m/, /mʲ/	/n/, /ɲ/	/o/, /ɐ/	/p/, /pʲ/	/r/, /rʲ/	/s/, /sʲ/	/t/, /tʲ/	/u/	/f/, /fʲ/	/x/, /xʲ/	/t͡s/	/t͡ɕ/	/ʂ/	/ɕɕ/		/ɨ/	/ ʲ/	/e/	/ju/, / ʲu/	/ja/, / ʲa/
Transcription	a	b	v	g	d	e	ë	ž	z	i	j	k	l	m	n	o	p	r	s	t	u	f	x	c	č	š	šč	''	y	'	è	ju	ja

Notes

The Russian l is velar, it is pronounced as English well or as the old French chevals: one pronounced then s of the plural (that is why the pronunciation was then modified in "cheva-or "Then" chevo "writes Chevaux)

At the end of the word, the sound consonants become deaf, as in German, they pronounce then:

• b > p
• v > f
• g > k
• d > t
• z > s 

The Russian has 5 vocalic phonemes noted by 10 graphemes: 

a	e	i	o	u
а	э	ы	о	у	After a hard consonant
я	е	и	ё	ю	After a soft consonant or yod

Examples

(In brackets the transcription & bracketed phonetics)

ад (ad) [at] Hell	яд (jad) [jat] Fish
мыло (mylo) [milo] soap	мило (milo) [mjilo] nice
лук (luk) [luk] onion	люк (ljuk) [ljuk] hatch

These wet sounds are not necessarily transcribed in French. Thus the name of the first president of Russia was Борис Ельцин in Russian, Boris Yeltsin in English and French: Boris Yeltsin (but pronouncing "Yeltsin").