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Russian Alphabet

Russian Alphabet
The modern Russian alphabet has 33 letters. It uses the Cyrillic system, which was developed in the ninth century and based on Greek uncial letters. Russian words are largely spelt phonetically.
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Cyrillic Alphabet; Alphabet; Russian Language
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