Technically, aren’t there variants of Cyrillic? I thought I remembered Ukrainian using another letter or something. Like, using “Russian alphabet” to refer to all Cyrillic variants might be incorrect, but to talk about the Russian variant of Cyrillic seems reasonable.
Looking online, that seems right, and WP uses the term this way:
>The Russian alphabet (Russian: ру́сский алфави́т, tr. russkiy alfavit, IPA: [ˈruskʲɪj ɐlfɐˈvʲit] or, more traditionally, Russian: ру́сская а́збука, tr. russkaya azbuka, IPA: [ˈruskəjə ˈazbʊkə]) was derived from Cyrillic script for Old Church Slavonic language. Initially an old variant of the Bulgarian alphabet,[2] it became used in the Kievan Rus’ since the 10th century to write what would become the Russian language. The modern Russian alphabet consists of 33 letters.
Nope, looks like same number of letters for Ukrainian, but different letters.
>* ge (ґ), used for the less-common velar plosive /ɡ/ sound, whereas in Ukrainian the common Cyrillic г represents a glottal fricative, /ɦ/.
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>* yi (ї) /ji/ or /jɪ/.
Ive had people tell me “your Russian is incorrect” after i wrote something in Bulgarian. But I understand most people dont know a lot about Cyrillic so i dont blame that person.
Dogs you know that the Latin alphabet only consists of 26 letters? But countries who use the Latin alphabet also uses th, ö or ø and ý
> The Cyrillic alphabet was designed by Constantine Cyril and his brother Methodius, two monks from Thessaloniki, either in Thessaloniki or on their way as missionaries to Great Moravia, which most scientists agree was situated in the east of today’s Czechia
Got it, so it’s the Czech alphabet.
goes without saying…
Hope this isn’t too off-topic. One of the basis in the crowdstrike report that found Russia guilty of hacking the DNC was that the hacker used the Cyrillic alphabet.
I’m guessing they did check this link. Almost wanted to ask them at blackhat a couple of years ago, but didn’t think the rep would have been too involved in the process
It’s only russian if it comes from Russia, France.
Isn’t it wrong to use word alphabet in regards to Cyrillic in the first place? There is no Cyrillic language, there is Cyrillic script.
We have a bunch of nationalists in Belarus who propose writing Belarusian in Latin script. I always thought they’re fringe freaks, but somehow they managed to push it into Minsk metro scheme labels disguised as English.
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Technically, aren’t there variants of Cyrillic? I thought I remembered Ukrainian using another letter or something. Like, using “Russian alphabet” to refer to all Cyrillic variants might be incorrect, but to talk about the Russian variant of Cyrillic seems reasonable.
Looking online, that seems right, and WP uses the term this way:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_alphabet
>The Russian alphabet (Russian: ру́сский алфави́т, tr. russkiy alfavit, IPA: [ˈruskʲɪj ɐlfɐˈvʲit] or, more traditionally, Russian: ру́сская а́збука, tr. russkaya azbuka, IPA: [ˈruskəjə ˈazbʊkə]) was derived from Cyrillic script for Old Church Slavonic language. Initially an old variant of the Bulgarian alphabet,[2] it became used in the Kievan Rus’ since the 10th century to write what would become the Russian language. The modern Russian alphabet consists of 33 letters.
Nope, looks like same number of letters for Ukrainian, but different letters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_alphabet
>Unique letters are the following:
>* ge (ґ), used for the less-common velar plosive /ɡ/ sound, whereas in Ukrainian the common Cyrillic г represents a glottal fricative, /ɦ/.
>
>* yi (ї) /ji/ or /jɪ/.
Ive had people tell me “your Russian is incorrect” after i wrote something in Bulgarian. But I understand most people dont know a lot about Cyrillic so i dont blame that person.
Dogs you know that the Latin alphabet only consists of 26 letters? But countries who use the Latin alphabet also uses th, ö or ø and ý
> The Cyrillic alphabet was designed by Constantine Cyril and his brother Methodius, two monks from Thessaloniki, either in Thessaloniki or on their way as missionaries to Great Moravia, which most scientists agree was situated in the east of today’s Czechia
Got it, so it’s the Czech alphabet.
goes without saying…
Hope this isn’t too off-topic. One of the basis in the crowdstrike report that found Russia guilty of hacking the DNC was that the hacker used the Cyrillic alphabet.
I’m guessing they did check this link. Almost wanted to ask them at blackhat a couple of years ago, but didn’t think the rep would have been too involved in the process
It’s only russian if it comes from Russia, France.
Isn’t it wrong to use word alphabet in regards to Cyrillic in the first place? There is no Cyrillic language, there is Cyrillic script.
We have a bunch of nationalists in Belarus who propose writing Belarusian in Latin script. I always thought they’re fringe freaks, but somehow they managed to push it into Minsk metro scheme labels disguised as English.