Er (Р р; italics:
''Р р'') is a letter of the
Cyrillic script
The Cyrillic script ( ), Slavonic script or the Slavic 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 co ...
.
It commonly represents the
alveolar trill
The voiced alveolar trill is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents dental, alveolar, and postalveolar trills is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is ...
, like the "rolled" sound in the Scottish pronunciation of in "curd".
History
The Cyrillic letter er was derived from the
Greek letter Rho (Ρ ρ).
The name of er in the
Early Cyrillic alphabet
The Early Cyrillic alphabet, also called classical Cyrillic or paleo-Cyrillic, is a writing system that was developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the late 9th century on the basis of the Greek alphabet for the Slavic people living ...
was (''rĭci''), meaning "speak".
In the
Cyrillic numeral system, er had a value of 100.
Form
The Cyrillic letter Er (Р р)
looks similar to the Greek letter Rho (Ρ ρ), and the same as the
Latin letter P (
П in Cyrillic).
Usage
As used in the alphabets of various languages, р represents the following sounds:
*
alveolar trill
The voiced alveolar trill is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents dental, alveolar, and postalveolar trills is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is ...
, like the "rolled" sound in the Scottish pronunciation of in "curd"
* palatalized
alveolar trill
The voiced alveolar trill is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents dental, alveolar, and postalveolar trills is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is ...
The pronunciations shown in the table are the primary ones for each language; for details consult the articles on the languages.
Related letters and other similar characters
*Ρ ρ/ :
Greek letter rho
*R r :
Latin letter R
*P p :
Latin letter P
*₽ :
Russian ruble sign
*П п :
Cyrillic letter П
Computing codes
External links
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References
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