Cyrillization of French

Russian language, Russian uses phonetic transcription for the Cyrillization of its many loanwords from French. Some use is made of Russian alphabet, Cyrillic's iotation features to represent French's front rounded vowels and Mouillé, etymologically-softened consonants.

Consonants

In the table below, the symbol represents either a Mouillé, "softened" consonant or the approximant . When applicable, a softened consonant can be indicated in transcription either by a following iotified vowel or by .

Doubled French consonants remain doubled in their Russian transcription: ''Rousseau'' – Руссо. silent letter#French, Silent consonants (common in French) are generally not transcribed, except where they exist in the surface form due to ''Liaison (French), liaison''.

Vowels

Finally, the softened consonants modify the following vowels:

Neither nor are doubled.

Bibliography

* Paul Garde, ''La Transcription des noms propres français en russe'', Paris, Institut d'études slaves, 1974, 63 pages, 25 cm, collection « Documents pédagogiques de l'Institut d'études slaves » n° X,

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