Russian Cyrillic Alphabet Quiz

The Russian alphabet is derived from the Cyrillic script and consists of 33 letters, including 20 consonants, 10 vowels, a semivowel/consonant, and two modifier letters. Several letters were eliminated from the alphabet before 1750 and others were eliminated in 1917-18, but some were reinstated later. The Russian Academy of Sciences began using fonts without some letters from 1735. The modern Russian alphabet's consonants can represent both soft and hard consonant phonemes, depending on the following vowel. Six consonant phonemes have no distinct soft and hard variants. The Russian alphabet contains 10 vowel letters, which are grouped into soft and hard vowels. The soft vowels indicate a preceding palatalized consonant or are iotated in all other cases except ⟨и⟩. The hard sign (⟨ъ⟩) separates a succeeding soft vowel from a preceding consonant. Its original pronunciation was a very short middle schwa-like sound. While ⟨и⟩ is also a soft vowel, root-initial /i/ following a hard consonant is pronounced as [ɨ]. ⟨ё⟩ marks a /jo/ sound that developed from stressed /je/. The written letter ⟨ё⟩ is optional, and it is formally correct to write ⟨e⟩ for both /je/ and /jo/.The Russian Cyrillic alphabet has 33 letters, with each letter having a corresponding sound, and is based on the Greek alphabet. The letters are divided into consonants and vowels, with consonants further divided into hard and soft sounds, and vowels divided into simple and complex. The soft sign indicates that the preceding consonant is palatalized, while the hard sign indicates a lack of palatalization. Russian borrows terms from other languages, and there are various conventions for sounds not present in Russian. The only diacritic used in Russian is the acute accent, which marks stress on a vowel. The letter "ё" is a special variant of the letter "е", which is not always distinguished in written Russian, but the umlaut-like sign has no other uses. The letter "й" has completely separated from "е" and "и" and is considered a consonant letter. The frequency of characters in a corpus of written Russian is not evenly distributed, with some letters being more common than others. The standard Russian keyboard layout for personal computers is based on the Cyrillic alphabet. Until approximately the year 1900, mnemonic names inherited from Church Slavonic were used for the letters. However, since the names of the first few letters of the Slavonic alphabet seem to form readable text, attempts have been made to compose meaningful snippets of text from groups of consecutive letters for the rest of the alphabet.