For the most part, one letter denoted one sound – the principle that is preserved in the modern Russian language. However, there were fewer digraphs in Cyrillic than in Latin. The early Cyrillic alphabet was comprised of Glagolitic and Greek elements and was brought more in line with Latin for the sake of simplicity of letter strokes. The saints were the authors of the above mentioned Glagolitic script (“glagolitsa”), which was used later by their disciples to create Cyrillic.
There is also a common point of view that Cyril and Methodius were not the ones who developed the Cyrillic script. Some people, however, believe that this cut down was an act of sabotage on the part of those who didn’t want the Slavs to have a rich writing system. However, later on the number of letters was cut down to 41, which was done for the purposes of easier acquisition of the alphabet. There are reasons to believe that the oldest alphabet created by saints Cyril and Methodius (“glagolitsa”) included 156 characters (“glagolitsa” is derived from “glagolity” which is the archaic word for “to say”). According to these sources, the saint brothers were summoned to put in order the segmentary parts of the Slavic writing and sound system and create a unified script for Old Church Slavonic. There is a point of view in historical literature that brothers Cyril and Methodius were the founders of the Cyrillic script.
The history of the Cyrillic script starts in the 9 th century in the Bulgarian Empire. St Cyril and Methodius – the Inventors of the Cyrillic Script Just learn what sound each letter makes, and you’re good to go! It means that the spelling of a Russian word pretty much agrees with its pronunciation, so you don’t need an additional system of letters transcription (IPA) to help you learn to read Russian. Let me remind you that Russian is a more phonetic language than English. When learning English as a foreign language, students can’t avoid using the International Phonetic Alphabet because the difference between spelling and pronunciation in English can be so large that, as they say, one can read “Manchester” as “Liverpool”. As long as you do it in handwriting, it is efficient. You can even use the letters upper case instead of the lower case at your first steps. First, you should become familiar with Russian block letters and learn to write them. You are not going to participate in a Russian calligraphy contest.
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