The Russian Alphabet

Russian letter Letter's name in Russian Pronounced Transliteration1 Vowel as

"ah" "beh" "veh" "geh" "deh" "yeh" "yo" "zheh" "zeh" "ee" "ee kratkoyeh" "short ee" "kah" "ehl" "ehm" "ehn" "oh" "peh" "ehr"

a in car b in bit v in vine g in go d in do ye in yet yo in yolk s in pleasure z in zoo ee in see y in boy k in kitten l in lamp m in map n in not o in folk p in pet r in roll2

a b v g d ye or e yo zh z i i or y or j k l m n o p r

x x x x x -

"ehs" "teh" "oo" "ehf" "khah" "tseh" "cheh" "shah" "schyah" "tvyordiy znahk" "hard sign" "i" "myagkeey znahk" "soft sign" "eh" "yoo" "yah"

s in see t in tip oo in boot f in face h in house3 ts in sits ch in chip sh in shut sh in sheep

4

s t u f kh or h ts ch sh sch ' y ' e yu ya

x x x x x

i in ill
5

e in met u in use ya in yard

The Russian alphabet consists of 33 letters: 21 consonants, 10 vowels, and two letters without sound - soft sign and hard sign
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the Latin letter or combination of letters you type in Russian using the Latin keyboard you have to really "rrroll" your tongue to get it to sound Russian :-) 3 the hard sounded "h" ("house"), also compared to "x" sound when pronounced in Spanish (ex.: "Mxico"); is usually transliterated as "kh" 4 is called the hard sign and used in modern Russian spelling only as a separation sign 5 is called the soft sign and is generally used to indicate the softness of consonants