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Cyrillic
The Cyrillic script ( ) is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic, Turkic, Mongolic, Uralic, Caucasian and Iranic-speaking countries in Southeastern Europe, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, North Asia, and East Asia, and used by many other minority languages. , around 250 million people in Eurasia use Cyrillic as the official script for their national languages, with Russia accounting for about half of them. With the accession of Bulgaria to the European Union on 1 January 2007, Cyrillic became the third official script of the European Union, following the Latin and Greek alphabets. The Early Cyrillic alphabet was developed during the 9th century AD at the Preslav Literary School in the First Bulgarian Empire during the reign of Tsar Simeon I the Great, probably by the disciples of the two Byzantine brothers Cyril and Methodius, who had previously created the Gl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyrillic Script
The Cyrillic script ( ) is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic languages, Slavic, Turkic languages, Turkic, Mongolic languages, Mongolic, Uralic languages, Uralic, Caucasian languages, Caucasian and Iranian languages, Iranic-speaking countries in Southeastern Europe, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, North Asia, and East Asia, and used by many other minority languages. , around 250 million people in Eurasia use Cyrillic as the official script for their national languages, with Russia accounting for about half of them. With the accession of Bulgaria to the European Union on 1 January 2007, Cyrillic became the third official script of the Languages of the European Union#Writing systems, European Union, following the Latin script, Latin and Greek alphabet, Greek alphabets. The Early Cyrillic alphabet was developed during the 9th century AD at the Preslav Literary School in the First Bulga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dzhe
Dzhe (Џ џ; italics: ''Џ џ'' or ; italics: ''Џ, џ''), also spelled dže, is a letter of the Cyrillic script used in Macedonian language, Macedonian and Variety (linguistics), varieties of Serbo-Croatian (Montenegrin language, Montenegrin and Serbian language, Serbian) to represent the voiced postalveolar affricate , like the pronunciation of j in “jump”. Dzhe corresponds in other Cyrillic alphabets to the digraph (orthography), digraphs дж or чж, or to the letters Che with descender (Ҷ ҷ), Che with vertical stroke (Ҹ ҹ), Khakassian Che (Ӌ ӌ), Zhe with breve (Ӂ ӂ), Zhe with diaeresis (Ӝ ӝ), or Zhje (Җ җ). In the Latin version of Gaj's Latin alphabet, Serbo-Croatian, it corresponds with the digraph which, like the digraphs and , is treated as a single letter, including in crossword puzzles and for purposes of collation. Abkhaz language, Abkhaz uses it to represent the voiced retroflex affricate . The digraph џь is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dungan Language
Dungan ( or ) is a Sinitic language spoken primarily in the Chu Valley of southeastern Kazakhstan and northern Kyrgyzstan. It is the native language of the Dungan people, a Hui subgroup that fled Qing China in the 19th century. It evolved from the Central Plains Mandarin variety spoken in Gansu and Shaanxi. It is the only Sino-Tibetan language to be officially written in the Cyrillic script. In addition, the Dungan language contains loanwords and archaisms not found in other modern varieties of Mandarin. History The Dungan people of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan (with smaller groups living in other post-Soviet states) are the descendants of several groups of the Hui people that migrated to the region in the 1870s and the 1880s after the defeat of the Dungan revolt in Northwestern China. The Hui of Northwestern China (often referred to as "Dungans" or "Tungani" by 19th-century western writers, as well as by some Turkic peoples) would normally speak the same Mandarin dialect a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalmyk Language
Kalmyk Oirat (, ), also known as the Kalmyk language () and formerly anglicized as Calmuck, is a Variety (linguistics), variety of the Oirat language, natively spoken by the Kalmyks, Kalmyk people of Kalmykia, a federal subject of Russia. In Russia, it is the standard language, standard form of the Oirat Mongolian (based on the Torgut Oirat, Torgut dialect), which belongs to the Mongolic languages, Mongolic language family. The Kalmyk people of the Northwest Caspian Sea of Russia claim descent from the Oirats from Eurasia, who have also historically settled in Mongolia and Northwest China. According to UNESCO, the language is "definitely endangered". сән /sæn/. Nevertheless, in inflected forms of such words, short vowels tend to become elongated: сән /sæn/ "good" > сәәг /sæːgə/ "good-", күн /kyn/ "man"> күүнә /kyːnæ/ "man-". Despite that, long vowels still may be pronounced in non-initial syllables. This happens if a word consists of three syllables, sec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Che With Descender
Che with descender (Ҷ ҷ; italics: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter Che (Ч ч ). In the ISO 9 system of romanization, Che with descender is transliterated using the Latin letter C-cedilla (Ç ç). Che with descender is used in the alphabets of the following languages: Che with descender corresponds in other Cyrillic alphabets to the digraphs or , or to the letters Che with vertical stroke (Ҹ ҹ), Dzhe (Џ џ), Khakassian Che (Ӌ ӌ), Zhe with breve (Ӂ ӂ), Zhe with diaeresis (Ӝ ӝ), or Zhje (Җ җ). In the Surgut dialect of the Khanty language and in the Tofa language, che with descender is sometimes used in place of che with hook, which has not yet been encoded in Unicode. Computing codes See also *Ç ç : Latin letter C with cedilla - an Albanian, Azerbaijani, Gagauz, Kurdish, Turkish, and Turkmen letter *Cyrillic characters in Unicode As of Unicode versio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhe With Diaeresis
Zhe with diaeresis (Ӝ ӝ; italics: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter Zhe (Ж ж ). Zhe with diaeresis is used only in the alphabet of the Udmurt language, where it represents the voiced postalveolar affricate , like the pronunciation of in "jam".''Алатырев В. И.'Краткий грамматический очерк удмуртского языка It is usually romanized as ⟨dž⟩. Zhe with diaeresis corresponds in other Cyrillic alphabets to the digraphs or , or to the letters Che with descender (Ҷ ҷ), Che with vertical stroke (Ҹ ҹ), Dzhe (Џ џ), Khakassian Che (Ӌ ӌ), Zhe with breve (Ӂ ӂ), or Zhje (Җ җ). Computing codes See also *Cyrillic characters in Unicode As of Unicode version , Cyrillic script is encoded across several blocks: * CyrillicU+0400–U+04FF 256 characters * Cyrillic SupplementU+0500–U+052F 48 characters * Cyrillic Extended-AU+ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhe With Breve
Zhe with breve (Ӂ ӂ; italics: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script created by Russian and later Soviet linguists for the cyrillization of non-Slavic languages. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter Zhe (Ж ж ) by an addition of a breve. Zhe with breve is currently used in Moldovan Cyrillic (in use in Transnistria) to represent , the voiced postalveolar affricate, like the pronunciation of in "jam". It thus corresponds to before front vowels in the Romanian Latin alphabet. The letter Џ had been used for a similar sound in the Romanian Cyrillic alphabet, used until the 19th century. Formerly, Zhe with breve was used in the Gagauz Cyrillic alphabet, in use from 1957 to 1993, also to represent , corresponding to in the Gagauz Latin alphabet. Around the turn of the 20th century, it was also used in several Permyak alphabets to represent , and in the Translation Committee's Abkhaz alphabet to represent , the voiced postalveolar fricative, as in pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khakassian Che
Khakassian che (Ӌ ӌ; italics: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter che (Ч ч ). It is used in the alphabet of the Khakas language, as its name suggests, and represents the voiced postalveolar affricate ; similar to the pronunciation of in "jump". Khakassian che corresponds in other Cyrillic alphabets to the digraphs or , or to the letters che with descender (Ҷ ҷ), che with vertical stroke (Ҹ ҹ), dzhe (Џ џ), zhe with breve (Ӂ ӂ), zhe with diaeresis (Ӝ ӝ), or zhe with descender (Җ җ). It is also used in the Soyot language. Computing codes See also *Cyrillic characters in Unicode As of Unicode version , Cyrillic script is encoded across several blocks: * CyrillicU+0400–U+04FF 256 characters * Cyrillic SupplementU+0500–U+052F 48 characters * Cyrillic Extended-AU+2DE0–U+2DFF 32 characters * Cyrillic Extended-BU+A64 ... References Cyrillic letters {{ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Che With Vertical Stroke
Che with vertical stroke (Ҹ ҹ; italics: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter Che (Ч ч ). Che with vertical stroke is used in the alphabet of the Azeri language and Altai language, where it represents the voiced postalveolar affricate , like the pronunciation of in "jump". The corresponding letter in the Latin alphabet is . In Altai, it represents the voiced alveolo-palatal affricate . Che with vertical stroke corresponds in other Cyrillic alphabets to the digraphs or , or to the letters Che with descender (Ҷ ҷ), Dzhe (Џ џ), Khakassian Che (Ӌ ӌ), Zhe with breve (Ӂ ӂ), Zhe with diaeresis (Ӝ ӝ), or Zhje (Җ җ). From 1958 until 1991, it was used in the Azerbaijani alphabet to represent ; in this alphabet it is found in the name of Azerbaijan: «». The Azerbaijani Cyrillic alphabet and continue to be used to write Azerbaijani in Dagestan. Computing codes See also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyrillic Characters In Unicode
As of Unicode version , Cyrillic script is encoded across several blocks: * CyrillicU+0400–U+04FF 256 characters * Cyrillic SupplementU+0500–U+052F 48 characters * Cyrillic Extended-AU+2DE0–U+2DFF 32 characters * Cyrillic Extended-BU+A640–U+A69F 96 characters * Cyrillic Extended-CU+1C80–U+1C8F 11 characters * Cyrillic Extended-DU+1E030–U+1E08F 63 characters * Phonetic ExtensionsU+1D2B, U+1D78 2 Cyrillic characters * Combining Half MarksU+FE2E–U+FE2F 2 Cyrillic characters The characters in the range U+0400–U+045F are basically the characters from ISO 8859-5 moved upward by 864 positions. The next characters in the Cyrillic block, range U+0460–U+0489, are historical letters, some of which are still used for Church Slavonic. The characters in the range U+048A–U+04FF and the complete Cyrillic Supplement block (U+0500–U+052F) are additional letters for various languages that are written with Cyrillic script. Two characters are in the Phonetic Extensions b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatar Language
Tatar ( ; or ) is a Turkic languages, Turkic language spoken by the Volga Tatars mainly located in modern Tatarstan (European Russia), as well as Siberia. It should not be confused with Crimean Tatar language, Crimean Tatar or Siberian Tatar language, Siberian Tatar, which are closely related but belong to different subgroups of the Kipchak languages. Geographic distribution The Tatar language is spoken in Russia by about 5.3 million people, and also by communities in Azerbaijan, China, Finland, Georgia (country), Georgia, Israel, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine, the United States, Uzbekistan, and several other countries. Globally, there are more than 7 million speakers of Tatar. Tatar is also the mother tongue for several thousand Mari people, Mari, a Finnic peoples, Finnic people; Mordva's Qaratay group also speak a variant of Kazan Tatar. In the Russian Census (2010), 2010 census, 69% of Russian Tatars claimed at least some knowledge of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
