Language/Russian/Pronunciation/Alphabet-and-Pronunciation
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I/ Russian alphabet:
Russian is a Slavic language, such as Polish or Czech, written with the Cyrillic alphabet, inspired by the Greek alphabet.
II/Lines
1 Caps
2 Minisculs
3 Prononciation
4 Transcription
| 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 |
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| 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 |
| ye | yo | j | y | ou | jota | ts | tch | ch | chtch | you | ya | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 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 |
III/ 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 |
Exempels :
(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").