Russians use an alphabet based on the Cyrillic script. The modern Russian alphabet has 33 letters: 21 consonants, ten vowels and two signs. Yet it wasn’t always like that. Inception ...

"The Latin alphabet was used [in Kazakhstan] from 1929 to 1940," Nazarbayev said. "In 1940…a law was adopted transferring the Kazakh language from the Latin alphabet to one based on Russian script.

The Cyrillic alphabet was bolstered by the widespread use of Russian throughout the Soviet Union as the main language of education and administration.

The letters stand for sounds similar to the English [dʒ] and [t͡ʃ] – the latter sounding really Chinese. Additionally, Macedonian features the letter ‘s’ [d͡z], which otherwise does not occur in the ...

Russian’s Cyrillic alphabet has 33 letters—seven more than the 26 in the English alphabet. English has 12 vowel sounds (five long and seven short), while Russian has only five (all the same ...

In 1940, the Latin alphabet was replaced with Cyrillic -- the alphabet used for the Russian language. Nazarbaev's previous statements on a possible shift to the Latin alphabet have appeared to irk ...

Russian spelling is much more phonetic than languages using the Latin alphabet, so making this change would be roughly equivalent to turning “fit” into “feet” or “pill” into “peel.” ...