This is a list of

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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 c ...

. The definition of a Cyrillic letter for this list is a character encoded in the

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that a has script property of 'Cyrillic' and the general category of 'Letter'. An overview of the distribution of Cyrillic letters in Unicode is given in

Cyrillic script in Unicode As of Unicode version 15.0 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 ...

Letters contained in the Russian alphabet

Letters contained in the Russian alphabet.

Letters unused in Russian

Extensions

Letters with diacritics

Ligatures

Position Cyrillic letters in alphabet

Variants of

Cyrillic 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 ...

are used by the

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s of many languages, especially languages used in the former Soviet Union. The tables below list the Cyrillic letters in use in various modern languages and show the primary sounds they represent in them (see the articles on the specific languages for more detail). Letter forms with a combined diacritic which are not considered separate letters in any language (notably vowels with accent marks which are sometimes used in some languages to indicate stress and/or tone) are excluded from the tables, with the exception of ѐ and ѝ. The highlighted letters are those of the basic (original) Cyrillic alphabet; archaic letters no longer in use in any language today are not listed. For letters not on this list, see Template:Infobox Cyrillic letter.

Summary table

Notes

* ѐ and ѝ – considered variants of е and и, respectively, not separate letters – are included here because they are used in some South Slavic languages for preventing ambiguity and have been assigned separate Unicode code points. * The letters з́ and с́ only appear in the

Montenegrin alphabet The Montenegrin alphabet is the collective name given to "''Abeceda''" (Montenegrin Latin alphabet) and "''Азбука''" ( Montenegrin Cyrillic alphabet), the writing systems used to write the Montenegrin language. It was adopted on 9 June 200 ...

, which is otherwise identical to the Serbian alphabet and was not given a separate column. * In normal Russian texts ё is written without the dots, that is it appears as е. The dots are sometimes added to prevent ambiguity or in children books. * In the indicated languages, ъ indicates that the preceding consonant is not

iotated In Slavic languages, iotation (, ) is a form of palatalization that occurs when a consonant comes into contact with a palatal approximant from the succeeding phoneme. The is represented by iota (ι) in the Cyrillic alphabet and the Greek alphabe ...

. * In Ossetian, ъ is combined with consonants to indicate new phonemes, most commonly

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s. * In Chechen, ь is combined with both consonants and vowels to indicate various new phonemes. * Only used in borrowings, not in native words. *There are many languages that use two or more scripts, for example

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. *In Belarusian and Ukrainian there is an apostrophe to indicate de-palatalization of the preceding consonant. *Azerbaijani has the apostrophe as a letter. *Nenets has the apostrophe and double apostrophe as letters.

References

External links

Cyrillic Alphabets of Slavic Languages
review of Cyrillic charsets in Slavic Languages.
Unicode collation charts
��including Cyrillic letters, sorted by shape {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Cyrillic Letters